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'It hurts me more than the other,' he replied

'Nay, I would not hurt you,--not at this moment Soreat is e! Why,--why should I be such a victim? Why should life be an utter blank tobefore you? There, you have seen them all Which will you have?'

'I cannot now take that other as the expression of your mind'

'But it will be when you have left me;--and hen you ith ot your first letter in San Francisco Why should you kneel there? You do not love me A man should kneel to a woh she spoke thus, she put her hand upon his forehead, and pushed back his hair, and looked into his face 'I wonder whether that other woman loves you I do not want an answer, Paul I suppose you had better go' She took his hand and pressed it to her breast 'TellWhen you spoke of--compensation, did you mean--money?'

'No; indeed no'

'I hope not,--I hope not that Well, there;--go You shall be troubled no more with Winifred Hurtle' She took the sheet of paper which contained the threat of the horsewhip and tore it into scraps

'And am I to keep the other?' he asked

'No For what purpose would you have it? To prove my weakness? That also shall be destroyed' But she took it and restored it to her pocket-book

'Good-bye,will not bear a farewell Go, and let there be no other word spoken' And so he went

As soon as the front door was closed behind hied Ruby to ask Mrs Pipkin to come to her 'Mrs Pipkin,' she said, as soon as the wo is over between ht in the middle of the room, and as she spoke there was a s up both her hands

'As I have told you that I was to be ht now to tell you that I' to beman,--and quiet too'