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A few days after the ball Roger Carbury was up in town and was closeted with her in her back drawing-roo was the condition of the baronet's affairs and the indispensable necessity,--so Roger thought,--of taking so ht to an end It was horrible to hi in the world or any prospect of a shilling, who had nothing and never thought of earning anything should have hunters! He was very much in earnest about it, and quite prepared to speak his et hold of him 'Where is he now, Lady Carbury,--at this'out with the Baron' hounds soe it? Whose horses does he ride? Who pays for theer What can I do to prevent it?'

'I think you should refuse to have anything to do with him while he continues in such courses'

'My own son!'

'Yes;--exactly But what is to be the end of it? Is he to be allowed to ruin you and Hetta? It can't go on long'

'You wouldn't haveyou over And then it is so thoroughly dishonest,--so ungentleoes on from day to day I suppose you don't supply hier frowned angrily 'I can understand that you should provide him with bed and food, but not that you should pander to his vices by giving hi, and Lady Carbury winced under it 'The kind of life that he is leading requires a large inco, and know that with all I have in the world I could not do it myself'

'You are so different'

'I a that he should not begin to coive him?'

Then Lady Carbury revealed certain suspicions which she had begun to entertain during the last day or two 'I think he has been playing'

'That is the way to lose er