this crush � � mr wiu you tell my aunt that i shall be back almost directly and before mrs who on her side was impatiently expecting the twice could notice what was happening with no very clear idea where he was going was mounting a staircase by s side seemed to him more than ever that evening and he was beginning to with triumph at the idea of having when her first words somewhat dashed his confidence you do come from him don t you she said ah i knew it i no � no ice thank you they were passing a a s idol at the head of the stairs see this library quiet now tell me � why isn t he here it was cool and dim in the library with its sombre colouring of and mahogany seen by shaded lamps they had the place to themselves and could not have found a better opportunity though his thoughts were too sadly fluttered by this ill timed reference to to avail himself of it just then he was a after his dinner he said he ask me to make his cried i can t believe that � you are deceiving me something � some misfortune has happened to him � please tell me all no no he is quite well � there has happen and me he is not for you so to care i you are against him too i thought you were his friend i not any he has done it himself and i am i shall make you angry and if you only could tell me it is not you felt for mr had anyone else asked such a question she would have been but had a child s of you ve no right to any answer when you put such questions as that she said still just this once i will satisfy your curiosity mr is nothing to me � do you understand � nothing ah i how you make me glad he exclaimed with a deep sigh of relief which imagined was on i account in the luck turns more than once then ro mr has not told you she said i thought you came from him you know we were once engaged and then it was broken off and i always be very very grateful to you because you first made me suspect that there might be an excuse for him i could never have dreamed of and now i am sure of it and � � and we met only this afternoon and everything is as it used to be the poor man s castle came rattling down about his ears perhaps it was the dust it made that choked and blinded him for a few moments he was indeed unfortunate no sooner had as he imagined hopelessly himself than a new rival presented himself in the shape of and just when he had ceased to be formidable reappeared triumphant no he said i did not know � i did not know that yes and she added anxiously he was to have been here to night but it is so late and i can t help uneasy even when he has got rid of the idol at last how got rid inquired and told him what she had been told herself i tell you will he get rid of it in such way it will come back time more and more angry he said when he had heard her story he will not what it wants and i myself i can only guess but i suspect that in the s was a which makes a great but you can find out surely urged a fallen idol not unless i and you forget we no more i have him oflf yes i am sorry said with a gloomy satisfaction te could not altogether disguise but i am mr is having more with that idol and that is why he is not here to night oh but it can t be that it s all so impossible cried and yet he believed it it may be all true � that wicked thing may have come back oh do help us too late he said without my i cannot know if i am right about the and the remedy and with him i quarrel but you can make friends with him again he may be more amiable when you come to know him better and if is in danger see i gave him that thing and if any more mischief were to come from it it would kill me it would really you ask me to do all this he cried almost savagely � to back to my s feet like a beaten if i never had seen you so would i still be for your sake i my and my both i would be free to � yes i tell you it was and for you and now you want me to eat my to put my bride in my and myself a fool � all for mr was beyond all measure surprised and shocked it had never occurred to her that there was any room in s head for thoughts of love i am so sorry so very sorry she said looking at him with eyes in which the luck turns more than once in which wonder was still lingering if i had known i would never have pained you like this and now you have told me i can t of course ask for your help after all we may be ourselves about nothing don t you think so but it is the uncertainty that s so dreadful and the not having any idea what to do her sorrow and resignation seemed to produce a in do not please he entreated or i also shall � and i so i been a fool ever to you might me � ever to 