can follow do you think he has entirely gotten over his feelings toward asked the colonel nervously entirely have no fear you will return to america with a wedding party is in europe somewhere you know yes with a who will take good care that she does not get out of her sight i know he never sent her here without full instructions to meet every case he has been as fearful that there should be anything between them since that day of the as he was anxious for it before when a man is desirous of being convinced it does not take much to convince him and the worthy colonel found his fears for his daughter s happiness giving way to rose colored expectations as he noted the confidence of his companion they the steamer at took the usual short run through ireland crossed to scotland where they spent a fortnight and then by easy stages stopping at many places of interest came to world s metropolis a cry chapter a cry for help had not been twenty four hours in london before he began to realize that he was practically under he occupied the peculiar position of being in a foreign land with hardly a dollar in his pocket and with watchful eyes following his every movement it was no part of the purpose of his father that he should be able to take journeys of his own in any direction that he might fancy and his purse had been carefully with that end in view under the pretence that funds had not arrived john gave his son only the smallest sums and s pride prevented him from asking the only other person in the party to whom he could have applied s father for anything london meant to the young man more than all else the place where had undoubtedly been perhaps where she still was and the fever that had in his veins grew as time passed on they might surround him with all the they pleased but he resolved that it should avail them nothing if he could not find the one he loved at least they should not make him wed another he had never really recovered from his illness mr continued to supply him with disguised in his medicine generally he wore an appearance of extreme melancholy was much troubled by this and appealed to her the ton father to know if something could not be suggested to turn the current of his thoughts m i never saw so unhappy she said sometimes i feel as if he did not care for me i would rather die than marry him if i thought that the voyage does not seem to have done him much good thus far the colonel was all this time in a he had given out to the of the eagle that his daughter and were engaged and that they would probably return from europe man and wife all expected this and if it did not occur there would be a suspicion that had been was constantly at his elbow ready to meet any doubt and the colonel was more than willing to be convinced don t be in haste and all will be well said repeatedly all he wants is a little more time it takes something more than common to control the every movement of a young man of twenty three even under the conditions of a case like the one in question found by a newspaper that he picked up at the hotel that was at the victoria little as he had cause to hope for help from him it was a straw worth catching at in his helpless and he a note to the address stating his position and begging cliff for the sake of old times to come to his rescue i am still suffering from the effects of the long illness i have had he wrote and though they give me medicine constantly it does me no good i feel that it is too late for me to hope to regain the a foe help of and i shall try to reconcile myself to its loss but this steady pressure toward another alliance is wearing me out i fear that some day i shall yield and then there will be a future of misery for both myself and i have not a dollar that i can call my own if i had enough to take me back to america i would fly from this danger and once there i would take care that they never got me again into their power you hate me for the of which i was guilty but you can afford to be now that i have lost the only thing i care for if i have done wrong and heaven knows how dearly i regret my conduct my punishment is already severe enough if you can send me twenty pounds which i will repay as soon as i can earn it you may save two people from a lifetime of the messenger who took this note reported that mr had left the victoria and gone to live at some other hotel and that the clerks would forward the letter to his new address as soon as they could ascertain it there was something very in this report for it might mean that had left the city and in s mood he naturally looked at the darkest side of everything a week went by and nothing was heard from his former friend he thought it more than probable that the note had reached him and that his contempt for the had induced him to meet his request by a dead silence if he had done so felt that he could not blame him it would not be easy for cliff to despise him more than he despised himself he was plunged into the greatest despondency and in this state of 