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It hile he was in this ood old clergyman who had been the subject of his rude, practical joke months before He recalled the sincere, frank letter which led to their evening interview, and re and mysterious emotion that had seized upon hirasp, and said in tones of pathos that shook his soul, "I wish I could lead you by loving force into the paths of pleasantness and peace" Wild and reckless fool as he then was, it had been only by a decided effort and abrupt departure that he had escaped the heavenly influences which seeood man prayed and spun the meshes of the nets which he daily cast for souls If he could visit that study again with a receptive heart, ht not the emotion that he bad formerly resisted rise like a flood, and sweep away his old miserable self, and he beco been once entertained, speedily grew into a hope, and then became almost a certainty He felt that he would much rather see Dr Marks than Dr Barstow, and that if he could feel that kind, wariven hientle words could not inspire

Before the as over he felt that soive hiirls orked at his side in the arb, coarse and soiled They resented the presence of Haldane for a twofold reason; they regarded the intrusion of a "jail-bird" aht of an insult; they were still more annoyed, and perplexed also, that this disreputable character made them feel that he was their superior Hence a syste at him, and practical jokes played upon hier or his nerves were irritated to the last degree of endurance More than once his fist was clenched to strike; but he remembered in time that the heavier the blow he struck, the ainst hi experiences and noise of the day, Mr Growther's cottage was not the quiet refuge he needed Mr Growther's groas chronic, and it rasped on Haldane's overstrained nerves like the filing of a saw Dr Barstow's sermons of the previous Sabbath had eentleman, and their only result, apparently, was to make him more out-of-sorts and vindictive toward his poor, miserable little self than ever He was so irascible that even the co unusual was a securely, they learned to keep a wary and deprecatory eye on their master and the toes of his thick-soled slippers