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"Away!" said Gwladys

"Do you wish, then, never to see reatest wish is never to see you or hear of

you again!"

Cardo sank on the garden seat, feeling himself more perfectly unmanned

than he had ever been before He had built such fair castles of hope,

the ruin was so great; he had drea was so bitter!

Gwladys saw the stor which had overwhelmed him, and for a

moment her voice softened

"I aiven you ht tone of tenderness in her voice seemed to restore Cardo to

life He crossed the velvet path, and, laying hold of her hands, which

she in vain tried to wrest froe heaven and earth to take you

from me!"

"It is base and dishonourable," said Gwladys, still struggling in his

grasp, "to frighten a friendless girl and force your presence upon her"

But Cardo's grasp was suddenly relaxed Dropping his ar back a step or two, he stood aside to let her pass

His long-tried temper had over-mastered him, as with a scornful voice

he spoke for the last tio--dishonourable! not even you shall call e cloud is over you--you are not the same

Valmai that walked with me beside the Berwen You cannot kill all and bitterness I will

never intrude etting the past; I will never disturb the even tenor of your