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His prison and mission classes er live a herood earnest to look for the "little, peaked-faced chap" that had grown to be more and ot that Haldane had ever existed

In the autuorous, and entered upon his studies at the medical school connected with the university with decided zest To his joy he found a letter fro him that the health of her niece was fully restored, and that they were about to return And yet it ith s that he remembered that Laura would henceforth be an inmate of Mrs Arnot's home As a memory, however beautiful, she was too shadowy to disturb his peace Would this be true if she had fulfilled all the rich proirlhood, and he saw her often?

With a foreboding of future trouble he both dreaded and longed to see once more the maiden who had once so deeply stirred his heart, and who in the depths of his disgrace had not scorned hiuise and at the tasks of a common laborer

It ith a quickened pulse that he read in the "Spy" one Monday evening, that Mrs Arnot and niece had arrived in town It ith a quicker pulse that he received a note fro, and adding that two or three other young men whom he knew to be her especial favorites would be present

Because our story has confined itself chiefly to the relations existing between Haldane and Mrs Arnot, it otten that her active sympathies were enlisted in behalf of many others, some of ere almost equally attached to her and she to theht Haldane concluded that he would much prefer that his first intervieith Laura should be in the presence of others, for he could then keep in the background without exciting reht find that her old power over him was a broken spell, and that the lovely face which had haunted hi more beautiful with time, was but the creation of his own fancy He was sure she would still be pretty, but if that were all he could go on his ithout a regretful thought But if the shy , co of his saw years ago, were the type of the woht not the bitterest punishment of his folly be still before him?