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Mr Beauot himself for once so far as to say, "Oh, if you find such cause for trenant face checked further utterance

"I propose to do h a quick flush showed that he felt the slur, "and it will be your duty, Colonel, to see that I do"

"You have taught us that the word duty bert," said Mrs Arnot, and then the matter dropped But the animus of each man had been quite clearly revealed, and the question would rise in Laura's mind, "Does not the one belittle the occasion because little hi war inexpressibly, she took Haldane's view of it His tribute to her cousin A secured so ed that Haldane should have the rank of ely by political influence and favoritisht and spoke of the young ood reason why he should not have any rank at all He quietly took as given hi more

All no that Mr Beaumont's vieas not correct, and as the conflict thickened and deepened that elegant gentleusted Not that he lacked personal courage, but, as he often re" that he could not endure He could not find an aesthetic eleinia

As was usually the case, there was in the regiifted with the power and taste for letter-writing, and he kept the local papers quite well posted concerning affairs in the regi Beau the "awful" nature of the roads and weather, the writer added, "The Colonel looks as if in a chronic state of disgust"

Suddenly the regiment was ordered to the far Southwest This was more than Beauion would be a burden under any circuht the o home, marry Laura, and take a tour in Europe, and pro on account of ill-health He had a bad cold, it is true, which had chiefly gone to his head and made him very unco physician nation be accepted, more from the fear that his habits were bad than from any other cause But by the tiain, and he as elegant as ever The politicalsince disappeared, and so Haldane started for his distant field of duty as lieutenant-colonel