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And Lady Kingswood had indeed "found herself all right" Her own daughter had never been so thoughtful for her coana was, and she becainal turn of e little creature for whom the ordinary amusements of society seemed to have no attraction And now, installed in her own suana's Sicilian paradise, she al as poverty, or the sordid business of " up and down the rose- out to the exquisite blue of the sea, she inwardly thanked God for all His ood luck that had brought her soof her days

She was a handsome old lady; her refined features, soft blue eyes and white hair were a "cohteenth-century French ance with careful taste She was inflexibly loyal to her stated position; she neither "questioned" nor "controlled" Morgana, or attempted to intrude an opinion as to her actions or movements,--and if, as was only natural, she felt a certain curiosity concerning the ais of so brilliant and witch-like a personality she showed no sign of it She was interested in the Marchese Rivardi, but still ularly attracted, partly by his own dignified appearance andshe herself had towards the Catholic Faith where "Woin, and dee intercession with the Divine She knew, as we all in our innerreatest truth that can ever be taught to hu slightly on a silver-knobbed stick, up and down the loggia and looked at the sea, was one of rare beauty even in Sicily, the sky being of that pure ethereal blue for which one can hardly find a co it, tone for tone, as in athe intertwining blossoure like a white rose itself set in asatched her, with kindly, half compassionate eyes

"It must be a terrible responsibility for her to have so ht "She can hardly knohat to do with it! And somehow--I do not think she will marry"