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"And pray, who are you to please, sir?" she asked in quick displeasure "You speak of presumption in others, Mr Renault, and, unsolicited, you offer an affront to entleman who is not here to answer"

"I wish he were," I said between my teeth

Her fair face hardened

"Wishes are very safe, sir," she said in a low voice

At that, suddenly, such a blind anger floodedsun swah to burst them At such moments, which are rare with e shooko," I said

She held out her hand I aided her to rise; and she keptthe other over it, and looked up into ive allant and enerous and just as you"

And that was all, for we crossed the street, and I mounted the stoop of our house with her, and bowed her in when the great door opened

"Are you not co in the doorway

"No I shall take the air"

"But we sup in a few moments"

"I may sup at the Coq d'Or," I said Still she stood there, the wind blowing through the doorway fluttering the pink bows tied under her chin--a sweet, wistful face turned up to ht froolden lusters

"Have you freely forgiven me, Carus?"

"Yes, freely You know it"

"And you will be at the Fort? I shall give you that dance you ask to-night, shall I not?"

"If you will"

There was a silence; she stretched out one hand Then the door was closed and I descended the steps once -stick under one arm, prepared to meet my drover friend, who, Ennis said, desired to speak with e Street to findthe corner into Broadway, the husky, impatient whisper of a whippoorwill broke out fro the ruins of Trinity, and I started and turned, crossing the street Wild birds there were a-plenty in the city, yet the whippoorwill so seldom came into the streets that the note alone would have attracted nal