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Haldane found ti and affectionate letter to his ain, as he often had before He also wrote to Mrs Arnot a cheerful note, in which he tried to put his course in thethat as ain the world for him to do

As he approached the infected city he had the train chiefly to hi trains were full, and when at last he walked its streets it reminded him of a household of which so about walked as if under a sad constraint and gloom On most faces were seen evidences of anxiety and trouble, while a feere reckless

Having obtained a carriage, he was driven to Mr Poland's residence in a suburb He dis to quietly announce hi to a close as he walked up the gravelled drive that led to the house Not even the faintest zephyr stirred the luxuriant tropical foliage that here and there shadowed his path, and yet the stillness and quiet of nature did not suggest peace and repose so much as it did death The motionless air, heavily laden with a certain dead sweetness of flowers fro to mind the breathless silence and the heavy atmosphere of the cha funeral wreath are perishing together

So oppressed was Haldane he found hi the steps of the piazza with a silent tread, as if he were in truth approaching thethe bell there came froan that had been built in the roo the folloords with such depth of feeling that one felt that they revealed the inner life, With thought and love and passion rife, I cling to thee Thou art an isle in the ocean wide; Thou art a barque above the tide; How vague and void is all beside! I cling to thee

O dreaded death! cold, pallid death, Despair is in thy icy breath; I shrink from thee What victims wilt thou next enroll? Thou hast a terror for my soul Which will nor reason can control; I shrink from thee