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'He knew of the letter which I wrote to you'

'You have canvassed me between you?'

'Of course we have Is that unnatural? Would you have had me be silent about you to the oldest and the best friend I have in the world?'

'No, I would not have had you be silent to your oldest and best friend I presume you would declare your purpose But I should not have supposed you would have asked his leave When I was travelling with you, I thought you were ayour own actions I had heard that in your country girls sometimes hold themselves at the disposal of their friends,--but I did not dreaone out into the world to ue did not like it The punish cos,' he replied

'Is it s? Have I usually said bitter things to you? When I have hung round your neck and have sworn that you should be my God upon earth, was that bitter? I aht ue Say but one word to me, Paul, as you kno to say it, and there will be soon an end to that bitterness What shall I care for Mr Carbury, except to make him the cause of some innocent joke, if you will speak but that one word? And think what it is I aent were once your own prayers to me;--how you swore that your happiness could only be secured by one word of h I loved you, I doubted There were considerations of money, which have now vanished But I spoke it,--because I loved you, and because I believed you Give ift to you'

'I cannot say that word'

'Do you love? I have had s with men and have found them to be false, cruel, unworthy, and selfish But I havelike that No man has ever dared to treat me like that No man shall dare'

'I wrote to you'

'Wrote to me;--yes! And I was to take that as sufficient! No I think but little of my life and have but little for which to live But while I do live I will travel over the world's surface to face injustice and to expose it, before I will put up with it You wrote to me! Heaven and earth;--I can hardly control myself when I hear such impudence!' She clenched her fist upon the knife that lay on the table as she looked at hiain at a further distance 'Wrote tobreak the bond by which ere bound together? Had not the distance between us seemed to have made you safe would you have dared to write that letter? The letter must be unwritten It has already been contradicted by your conduct to me since I have been in this country'