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A peculiarity was observable beneath her A green field spread itself on each side of the hedge, one belonging to the glebe, the other being a part of the land attached to the e side she saw a little footpath, the distinctive and altogether exceptional feature of which consisted in its being only about ten yards long; it terinning and suddenly ending, co nowhere, she had never seen before

Yes, she had, on second thoughts She had seen exactly such a path trodden in the front of barracks by the sentry

And this recollection explained the origin of the path here Her father had trodden it by pacing up and down, as she had once seen hie as she sat now, her eyes commanded a view of both sides of it And a few minutes later, Elfride looked over to the manor side

Here was another sentry path It was like the first in length, and it began and ended exactly opposite the beginning and ending of its neighbour, but it was thinner, and less distinct

Two reasons existed for the difference This one ht of tread to the other, exercised a less nuht have been walked just as frequently, but by lighter feet

Probably a gentleht have considered the latter alternative as the ht at all But her own great To-Morroas now ihts of the eye were only allowed to exercise the banished altogether

Elfride was at length co All her definite perceptions thereon, when the e them was abstracted, amounted to no more than these: 'Say an hour and three-quarters to ride to St Launce's

'Say half an hour at the Falcon to changeto Plymouth

'Say an hour to spare before twelve o'clock

'Total ti Endelstow till twelve o'clock, five hours

'Therefore I shall have to start at seven'

No surprise or sense of unwontedness entered the minds of the servants at her early ride The monotony of life we associate with people of small incomes in districts out of the sound of the railhistle, has one exception, which puts into shade the experience of dwellers about the great centres of population--that is, in travelling Every journey there is more or less an adventure; adventurous hours are necessarily chosen for theMiss Elfride had to leave early--that was all