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"But I would have lost my self-respect I should have done worse--"

"Self-respect!" interrupted hisacross her pale face "How can you use that word after what has happened, and especially now that you are working a with that profane old creature who goes by the name of 'Jerry Growler' To think that you, who bear your father's name, should have fallen so low! The daily and hourlyof all this, here, where for so many years there was not a speck upon our family reputation, is more than flesh and blood can endure Our only course now is to go ahere we are not known Our best hope is to make you appear like what your father et that you have been anything else; and if you have any sense of obligation to us left you will do what you can to carry out our efforts Dr Marks thinks you have e of heart' I am sure yon can prove it in no better way than by a docile acquiescence in the wishes of one who has a natural right to control you, and whose teachings," she added complacently, "had they been folloould have enabled you to hold up your head to-day a the proudest in the land"

Haldane buried his face in his hands, and fairly groaned, in his disappointment and sense of humiliation

"Is it possible," asked one of his sisters "that you thought that we could all go out to church to-day as usual, and commence life to-morrohere he left off when you first went away fro of the kind," said her brother, lifting up a face that was pale froht little about all this that is upperh the phase of shrinking fro were a diseased nerve While in that condition I suffered enough, God knows; but even in the police court I was not raced criminal than I have been here, in ; but the result is all the sas to heaven rather than earth, I was led to forget the world and all about it; I was led to wish to forood character for its own sake I wanted to be rid of the debasing vices of my nature which she had made me hate, and which would separate iveness, reat change in my nature which he alone can bestow I felt that Dr Marks could help me, because I believed in hiate of heaven I expected, at least, a little sympathy from you all, and a God-speed as I went back to ht take me by the hand, and say to those who knew us here, 'My son was lost, but is found He wishes to live a manly, Christian life, and all who are Christians should help him' I find, on the contrary, that Christ and his words are forgotten; that I aarded as a hideous and deforuised as far as possible, and spirited off to some remote corner of the earth, and there virtually buried alive Thus different are the teachings of the Bible and the teachings of the world I thought I could not endure o back to it quite content"