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Betto had bid hi in the background, Gwynne Ellis, grasping his hand with a warm

pressure, said: "Good-bye, Wynne, and God bless you! I shall look forith great

pleasure to ain when you return from Australia I shall

stay here a week or two at your father's invitation"

"Yes," said the Vicar, in a wonderfully softened tone, "it would be too

trying to have the house eether and crossed the little

bridge over the Berwen Valley, the Vicar, pointing with his whip, drew

Cardo's attention to the stile beside the bridge

"This is the stile which I saw Ellen Vaughan crossing the day Ifor her I met my brother afterwards, and oh! how

blinded I was! But there, a man who is carried away by his passions is

like a runaway horse, which, they say, becoht"

It was needless to call Cardo's attention to the stile His first

with Valmai was so intie, he called to ht of the moon

"Perhaps you never noticed there was a stile there?" said the Vicar

"Yes," said Cardo, turning round to take a last look at it and the

bridge, and--was it fancy, or did he see so in the wind?

For a

back to see, but "Ji the check, swerved

uncomfortably aside