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"I shall be pleased indeed to meet your nephew," he said "I feel sure that we have many interests in coarrulous on fahtened him "Etterick is his, and really all the land round here We si is splendid, and Lewie is a very keen sportsman His mother was my husband's sister, and died when he was born He is wonderfully unspoiled to have had such a lonely boyhood"

"How did the faet the land?" he asked It was a h he was, he looked always forward to the day when he should own a pleasant country property, and forget the troubles of life in the Nirvana of the respectable

"Oh, they've had it for ages They are a very old family, you know, and look down upon us as parvenus They have been everything in their day--soldiers, statesmen, lawyers; and ere decent o, they were busy o to Etterick you must see the pictures There is a fine one by Jaht with Montrose, and Raeburn painted most of the Haystouns of his time They were a very handsome race, at least the men; the women were too florid and buxom for my taste"

"And this Lewis--is he the only one of the family?"

"The very last, and of course he does his best tohis precious life in Hindu Kush or Tibet or soue

"What a pity he does not realize his responsibilities!" said the politician "He ht do so much"

But at the moment it dawned upon the speaker that the skirker of responsibilities was appearing in person There strode towards thes

"How do you do, Aunt Egeria?" he cried, and he caught her small woman's hand in a hard brown one and sazine to the winds and caught his available left hand "Oh, Lewie, you wretch! how glad we are to see you again" Meantis perfor man, when he had escaped from the embraces of his friends, turned to the others He seenize two of them, for he shook hands cordially with the two spectacled people "Hullo, Hodda you here?" And he poured forth a string of kind questions till the two beamed with pleasure