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I have the impression that the old felloanted ood of him!" She spoke earnestly, and her face was suffused

with a war what she said

"It was," John answered, unsteadily "He kne great was my need of a

few moments' companionableness with--with----"

"No," she interrupted "Iof me, and it was for my sake he wanted us to meet"

It would have been hard to convince a woman, if she had overheard this

speech, that Miss Sherwood's humility was not the calculated affectation

of a coquette Sometimes a man's unsuspicion is wiser, and Harkless knew

that she was not flirting with him In addition, he was not a fatuous man;

he did not extend the implication of her words nearly so far as she would

have had hio"

"What!" she cried, and her eyes danced "You actually remember?"

"Yes; do you?" he answered "I stood in Jones's field and heard you

singing, and I re: "'I was a ruffler of Flanders,

And fought for a florin's hire

You were the da to my heart's desire'