satisfactory he found his voice at last well he said now that you know all what are you going to do about it i � would rather know the worst i will tell you that in good time she replied but first of all i want you to tell me exactly how you came to have these and what use you made of them on previous occasions so slightly reassured by her manner which was composed peter gave her a plain account of the way in which he had been led to deposit his extra time and the whole story of his v ith miss he did not mention any others because he felt that the affair was quite complicated enough dragging in and matter i may have been he concluded but i do assure you that in all the quarters of an hour i have had as yet i never once behaved to that young lady in any capacity but that of a friend i only went on drawing the because i wanted a little change of air and scene now and then you have no idea how it picked me up i saw in what society it set you down peter was s answer you � you t think she is like that he urged it took me quite by surprise � it was a most painful position for me i think your own sense of will acknowledge that considering the awkwardness of my situation i � i behaved as well as could be expected you do admit that don t you was silent for a minute or so before she spoke again i must have time to think peter she said it is all so strange so contrary to all my experience that i can hardly see things as yet in their proper light but i may tell you at once that from what i was able to observe and from all you have just told me i am inclined to think that you are free from actual in the matter it was quite clear that that very forward girl was the principal e � i and that you were nothing more than an unwilling and most embarrassed this was so much more a view than he had dared to expect that peter recovered his ordinary that was all he said i am very glad you saw it my dear i was perfectly helpless and then said i was more than pleased by your firm refusal to commit suicide what you said was so very sound and true peter i hope so said peter with much complacency yes i was pretty firm with her by the way he added you � you didn t happen to see whether she really did jump overboard i suppose i came away just at the crisis she said i thought you would tell me came away too said peter it doesn t matter of course but still i should have rather liked to know whether she meant it or not how can you speak of it so peter she may have been trying to frighten � s you is just tlie kind of girl who would but she may have been in earnest after all you see said peter it doesn t matter whether she was or not � it isn t as if it had ever really happened not really happened but i was there i heard i saw it � nothing could be more real at any rate he said it only happens when i use those and she can t possibly carry out her rash intention until i draw another � which i promise you faithfully i will never do if you doubt me i will burn the book now before your eyes with these words he went to the drawer and took out the book no said you must not do that peter there is much about this time bank that i don t pretend to understand that i can not account for by any known natural law but i may not my own eyes and ears these events that have happened in the extra time you chose to till now are just as real as any other events you ha ve made this girl s acquaintance you have � i don t say through any fault of your own but � l e still you ha � caused her to transfer her affections from the man she was engaged to and being a creature of ill regulated mind and no strength of character she has resolved to put an end to her life rather than meet his just indignation she is now on the very point of this folly well badly as she has behaved you can not possibly leave the wretched girl there you must go back at once restrain her by main force and not leave her until you have argued her into a rational frame of mind peter was by no means anxious to go back at first it s not at all necessary he said and besides i don t know if you re aware of it but with the way these are worked it s ten chances to one against my off the right fifteen minutes i still he added with an i can try of course if you insist upon it i can take my chance with another fifteen minutes but that must be the last i am sick and tired of this ng business i am indeed shameful as it is to state he had altered his mind from a sudden recollection that he � � would not mind seeing miss for just once more he had not drawn her for several weeks said thoughtfully i see your objection � fifteen minutes is not enough unless you could be sure of getting the to the last but i have an idea peter � if you draw out the whole 