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Haldane had forgotten hied to another, and, under the spell of the old love song, had dropped his aze of deep, intense affection more plainly than spoken words could have revealed it

He started slightly as he saw her conscious blush, turned pale instead of becoht co the concluding verse of the ballad in a rather unsyht instrumental piece devoid of sentiment, rose from the piano

Haldane thanked her with frank heartiness, and then added in a playful h the concert was over, he eather-bound on account of the shower, and would therefore try to co a curious story which was not only founded on fact, but all fact; and he soon had both of his auditors deeply interested in one of those strange and varied experiences which occasionally occur in real life, and which he had learned through his hts and shadows that now it provoked to laughter, and again almost moved the listeners to tears While the narrator made as little reference to himself as possible, he unconsciously and of necessity revealed how practically and vitally useful he was to the class a Partly to draw him out, and partly to learn more about certain characters in whom she had become interested, Mrs Arnot asked after one and another of Haldane's "difficult cases" As his replies suggested inevitably soot herself so far as to exclai such people?"

After the words were spoken she was already to wish that she had bitten her tongue out

"Christ worked aravely, and then he added, with a look of grateful affection toward Mrs Arnot, "Besides, your aunt has taught me by a happy experience that there are soe for the better in 'such people'"

"Mr Haldane," said Laura i your pardon As you were speaking you seemed so like my aunt in refinement and character that you banished every other association fro expression of pleasure, and he said: "I alad that those words are so heartily uttered, and that there is no preree I can even reseress"