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Having noted that the routine of as going forward as regularly as the monotonous clank of the machinery, he finally wended his way to his city office, and was the first arrival thither save Pat M'Cabe, who had just finished putting the place in order for the business of the day His factotu across town he had eagerly bought the"Courier," and his co withheld his name from the "oncivil iditer" vanished utterly as he read the words, "an intelligent Irishman in Mr Arnot's employ"

"Och! bloody blazes! that manes me," he had exclaimed; "and ould Boss Arnot will know it jist as well as if they had printed me name all over the paper Bad luck to the spalpeen, and worse luck to ent Irishman,' am I? Then what kind o' a crather would one be as had no sinse a' tall? Here I've bin throwin' away fotry dollars the e I'd better go round to the tother side o' the airth' than go home to me woife"

Nor were his apprehensions allayed as he saw Mr Arnot reading the paper with a darkening scowl; but for the present Pat was left in suspense as to his fate

Clerks and book-keepers soon appeared, and a theiven a seat soht behind the door

Upon every face there was an expression of suppressed excitement and expectation, for the attention of those who had not seen the raph But the routine and discipline of the office prevailed, and in a few ers, but with lance at the door

As for Pat, he had the impression that the police was over, and march him off, with Haldane, to jail; and he was in such a state of nervous apprehension that almost any event short of an earthquake would be a relief if it could only happen at once

The April sun shone brightly and genially into the apartment in which Haldane had been left to sleep off his drunken stupor In all its appoint, and cleanly as the wholesoht without The spirit of the housekeeper pervaded every part of the mansion, and in both furniture and decoration it would seeest hts It was Mrs Arnot's philosophy that outward surroundings i to the mind, and are a help or a hindrance She was a disciple of the light, and ell aware that she ence in order to escape fro disappointaudy--not a brilliant nize as one e cehtsoh the curtained s of Haldane's apart in harmony with itself save the occupant