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Side by side with Haldane stood a creature whose dishevelled, rusty hair, blotched and bloated features, wanton, cunning, restless eyes, coical Harpy It required little effort of the iled dress concealed the "wings and talons of the vulture" Being still unsteady froaway, she, to annoy him, clasped him in her arms, to the uproarious merriment of the miscellaneous crowd that is ever present at a police court Haldane broke away frorasp with such force as to make quite a commotion, and at the same time said loudly and fiercely to the officer who had arrested him: "You may have power to take ht nor the power to subject nities"

"Silence there! Keep order in the court!" coe

The officer rerowling as he did so: "If you don't like your company, you should have kept out of it"

Even in his overwhel a few curious glances at his companions He had dropped out of his old world into a new one, and these were its inhabitants In their degradation and misery he seemed to see himself and his future reflected What had the police than he had yet experienced he realized that this was his coed to the criht to speak to Laura Romeyn, was now herded with drunkards, thieves, and prostitutes; he who yesterday could enter Mrs Arnot's parlor, ht now as easily enter heaven As the truth of his situation gradually dawned upon hi upon his heart

But little tiiven him for observation or bitter revery With the rapid and routine-likeexperience, theof the miserable waifs Now he has before him the inmates of a "disorderly house," upon which a "raid" had been irl with blue eyes doing as, her companions? She looks like a white lily that has been dropped into a puddle Perhaps that delicate and attractive fors and claws Perhaps a gross, bestial spirit is masked by her oval Madonna-like face Perhaps she is the victih society has for him scarcely a frown