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Lewis stared, incredulous

"It's quite true I a at the Bar, and I want to travel, proper travelling, where you are not coddled with railways and hotels"

"But it's hideously risky, and probably very arduous and thankless You will tire of it in a week"

"I won't," said George, "and in any case I'll make my book for that Youoff alone"

"But I o when two can't"

"When you come to that sort of place I'll stay behind I'll be quite under your orders"

"Well, at any rate take some time to think over it"

"Bless you, I don't want tie "I knowon for years"

"Thanks tremendously then, ood of you I must wire at once to Tommy"

"I'll take it down, if you like I want to try that new -cart"

When his host had left the rooht his pipe, but walked instead to theand whistled solemnly "Poor old man," he said softly to hied if he doesn't take it like a Trojan" And he added certain striking comments on the ways of wo expressed in Mr Winterhaone out after lunch to walk to Gleds storm the freshness which colen the north wind had stung her cheeks to crimson and blown stray curls about her ears; but when she left the littlethe earth, and a haze creeping over the hills which threatened storreeary When the fall thickened she sought the shelter of a way-side cottage, with the purpose of either sending to Glenavelin for a carriage or waiting for the off-chance of a farn of clearing, but fell in the same steady, noiseless drift The irl tea and dispatched her son to Glenavelin But the errand would take time, for the boy was s on the panes, watching the dreary weather with a dreary heart The goodas standing at the door on the look-out for a passing gig, and her cry brought the girl to attention