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With a sudden an to blow the ss into fla couch beside the fire in his big bed-sitting-rooo he had been one of those men who in almost any company appear easy and satisfactory, and, above all, are satisfactory to themselves His life was a very pleasant one indeed

He had coo, and had deters as they came, to foster acquaintanceships, to travel a little with a congenial friend, to stay about in other people's houses, and, in fact, to enjoy hi down to read law He had done this most successfully, and had crowned all, as has been related, by falling in love on a July evening with one who, he was quite certain, was the ned for him for Tio had developed along exactly those lines along which his tereatest ease He was the only son of a , he had an excellent income, he made friends wherever he went, and he had just secured therooly warion that satisfied every instinct of his nature It was the best of all possible worlds, and fitted hies without responsibilities

And now the crash had co sounded for luncheon he turned over and lay on his back, staring at the ceiling

It should have been a very attractive face under other circuold, there looked out a pair of grey eyes, bright a week ago, now dimmed with tears, and patched beneath with lines of sorrow His clean-cut, rather passionate lips were set noith down-turned corners, in a line of angry self-control piteous to see; and his clear skin seemed stained and dull He had never dreamt of such misery in all his days

As he lay noith lax hands at his side, tightening at ti vision after vision, turning now and again to the conteain he saw A, jeweled overhead with peeping stars, alory She was in her sun-bonnet and print dress, stepping towards hirass lately shorn of its flowers and growth, looking at hihted hilory lay on it as delicate as the light on a flower, and her blue eyes regarded hiolden hair