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As he could not trust himself to write an answer to Lady Carbury's letter he detero to London If he must tell the story he could tell it better face to face than by any written words So he , and knocked at the door in Welbeck Street between ten and eleven on thewhich took place between Sir Felix and John Crue should look when the fa from some terrible calamity 'My lady' had been sue reported,--in a very bad way indeed The page did not exactly knohat had happened, but supposed that Sir Felix had lost most of his limbs by this time Yes; Miss Carbury was upstairs; and would no doubt see her cousin, though she, too, was in a very bad condition; and dreadfully put about That poor Hetta should be 'put about' with her brother in the hospital and her lover in the toils of an aboh

'What's this about Felix?' asked Roger The new trouble always has precedence over those which are of earlier date

'Oh Roger, I aht, and thisthere came a man from the hospital in the city to say that he is there'

'What has happened to him?'

'So Then she told the story as far as she knew it Theer and that none of his bones were broken, but that he was terribly bruised about the face, that his eyes were in a frightful condition, sundry of his teeth knocked out, and his lips cut open But, the eon had seen no reason why the young gentleone to fetch hier Hetta had never heard of John Crumb, and simply stared into her cousin's face 'You have not been told about John Crumb? No;--you would not hear of him'

'Why should John Crumb beat Felix like that?'

'They say, Hetta, that women are the cause of irl blushed up to her eyes, as though the whole story of Felix's sin and folly had been told to her 'If it be as I suppose,' continued Roger, 'John Crued himself'