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We all of us, even the greatest of us, have our moments of weakness Let us then not express any surprise at the sudden collapse of one of the world's greatest fe of this speech s into a chair The ever-present fear that had haunted her had been exorcised Windles was hers in perpetuity The relief was too great She sat in her chair and gulped: and Eustace, greatly encouraged, eed slowly fro this poignant scene would have lasted, one cannot say It is a pity that it was cut short, for I should have liked to dwell upon it But at this ions downstairs, there suddenly burst upon the silent night such a ind of sound as effectually dissipated the tense emotion in the roo-rooain in the middle of a bar at the point where it had been switched off Its wailing la of Summer filled the whole house

"That's too bad!" said Jane, a little annoyed "At this tinett In the stress of recent events she had cootten the existence of those ene in the hall when I arrived, and now they're playing the orchestrion!"

"Light-hearted chaps!" said Eustace, ad-froid of the criminal world "Full of spirits!"

"This won't do," said Jane Hubbard, shaking her head "We can't have this sort of thing I'll go and fetch nett, clinging to her arhed

"Murder me!" she said, anett stood staring at the door as Jane closed it safely behind her

"Eustace," she said, soleirl!"

"Yes! She once killed a panther--or a puet which--with a hat-pin!" said Eustace with enthusiasnett

She broke off with a sharp wail Out in the passage so like a battery of artillery had roared

The door opened and Jane Hubbard appeared, slipping a fresh cartridge into the elephant-gun

"One of the about outside here," she announced "I took a shot at him, but I'm afraid I missed The visibility was bad At any rate he went away"