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"Mr Haldane," said Laura gravely, but with rising color, "I as I am scarcely more than a child It may not be proper or conventional forto you, but I have acted froht up in a secluded country holad I have seen you once more, for I wished you to know that I did feel sorry for you, and that I hoped you reatly wish you would see Mrs Arnot, or let me tell her where she can see you, and send to you what she wishes She has heard of you once or twice, but does not knohere to find you Will you not let ood-by," said she kindly, and was about to depart

"Wait," he said hastily; "will you do ht"

"This isthem off "They are not safe with me in my present life I do not wish to have it in my power to take them to a pawnshop I would rather starve first, and yet I would rather not be tempted I can't explain You cannot and should not know anything about the world in which I aive these to Mrs Arnot, and ask her to keep them till I come for them; or she can send them, with the rest ofalready Whatever ratitude and respect"

There was distress in Laura's face as he spoke; but she took the watch and chain without a word, for she saw that he was fully resolved upon his course

"I know that Mrs Arnot will respect my wish to re from that which I now bear Your life would be a very happy one, Miss Romeyn, if my wishes could race and dignity of a gentlearb He then resuht gli and sur house" should have so much to say to a wood-sawyer

"If she had a-given him a tract upon leavin', it would a-seemed more nateral like," she explained to a crony the latter part of the day