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"I heard you on the stairs," she said "I'm not dressed, and so I'll not kiss you I've told the cook to get your breakfast at once, for I know you are hungry"

"Thanks, I aht"

She was ten years older than he, short, and fir eyes had a sleepy look

"Youto his troubledreception and dance in his roone and all the rest I was the blindest chaperon you ever saw Good-by--if I don't get down to breakfast it will be because I' short"

"You say you did?" he cried, his heart sinking "What hed significantly, and was gone

He had his breakfast alone in the pretty dining-rooht was that he would go to the bank, but he decided otherwise He shrank fro the employees in his present frame of mind No, he would simply see Marie at once and face the inevitable The earliness of the hour--it was only nine o'clock--wouldher at once he erous, he ell aware of that, but the danger would not be any the greater under the roof of her cottage than at the bank, or even in the streets He decided not to call a cab The distance was less than a ht furnish sos with her

Marie Winship lived in a quiet part of the city, near Decatur Street, and after a brisk walk he found hi several minutes, and this ard, for he was afraid that sonize him and remark upon his presence there so early in the day However, no one passed, and he was adot up," she said, as she left hio into the little parlor off the hall

"Tell her, Mary, that I want to see her, but not to hurry, for I have plenty of tiot back"