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Your affectionate friend, PAUL MONTAGUE

Roger Carbury did not take a single day,--or a single hour to answer the letter He received it at breakfast, and after rushing out on the terrace and walking there for a few minutes, he hurried to his desk and wrote his reply As he did so, his whole face was red rath, and his eyes were gloith indignation

There is an old French saying that he who makes excuses is his own accuser You would not have written as you have done, had you not felt yourself to be false and ungrateful You knehere my heart was, and there you went and undermined my treasure, and stole it away You have destroyed ive you

You tell me not to banish you both fro of s! She will never be banished froht, and as is and will be my love to her, so shall be my enmity to you

ROGER CARBURY

It was hardly a letter for a Christian to write; and, yet, in those parts Roger Carbury had the reputation of being a good Christian

Henrietta told her , iue has been here'

'He always comes here when I am away,' said Lady Carbury

'That has been an accident He could not have known that you were going to Messrs Leadham and Loiter's'

'I'm not so sure of that, Hetta'

'Then, mamma, you must have told him yourself, and I don't think you knew till just before you were going But, mamma, what does it matter? He has been here, and I have told him--'

'You have not accepted hiyou Hoas I not to tell him when he asked me whether I--loved him--'

'Marry hiot was in that affair of Mels He is a ruined ht I know may be compromised in all Melmotte's wickedness'

'Oh, mamma, do not say that!'

'But I do say it It is hard upon me I did think that you would try to comfort me after all this trouble with Felix But you are as bad as he is;--or worse, for you have not been thrown into temptation like that poor boy! And you will break your cousin's heart Poor Roger! I feel for hi of that'