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"Well, well, have it your oay," said her husband impatiently "Of course, I do not wish that Laura should beco firebrand of a Haldane, there e in hier"

"I think I can e that can seem connected with this affair If you would also exercise a little kindness and forbearance, I do not think you would ever have cause to regret it"

"My office is not an asylum for incapables, lovesick swains, and fast boys It's a place of business, and if young Haldane can't realize this, there are plenty who can"

"As a favor toas possible Can you not send him to your factory near New York on sohts, and sudden and acute attacks, like his, usually do not last very long"

"Well, well, I'll see"

Mrs Arnot returned to the parlor, but Haldane was no longer there She went to his rooh he ithin, she could obtain no response to her knocking, or to the kind tone in which she spoke his naht that perhaps he would be calmer and more open to reason on the morrow, and, therefore, returned to her own apartlad to do so, for in her ill and suffering condition the strain had already been too great

She found Laura tearful and troubled, and could not do less than listen to her story

"Do you think I have done anything wrong, auntie?" asked the girl in deep anxiety

"No, dear, I think you have acted very sensibly I wish I could have foreseen the trouble sooner, and saved you both froe Mr Haldane on my account, will he?" she continued with albert has not done anything that should cause his dismissal I think that the only result will be to teach you both that these are lad they are distant, for I had no idea that love affairs were so intensely disagreeable"

Her aunt sirl departed to her rest quite co Mrs Arnot was too ill to appear at breakfast, and her niece would not venture down alone Haldane and his erim silence, and, after a cup of coffee only, the former abruptly excused himself and went to the office