s whole personality perhaps saw it for she said mournfully now i have done all i could i felt that the only to my cruelty to you in my drawing room would be to come as a to yours it is most handsome and noble of you my very dear friend said he with an emotion of courtesy rather than of enthusiasm then were spoken and she drove away but saw only the retreating and knew that he was helpless in her a young man of forty hands the church of the island had risen near the foundations of the pagan temple and a christian from the former might be him through the very false gods to whom he had devoted himself both in his craft like of and in his heart perhaps divine punishment for his had come she fails to vanish still had not turned far back towards the castle when he was overtaken by and the man who carried his painting lumber they paced together to the door the man deposited the articles and went away and the two walked up and down before entering i met an extremely interesting woman in the road out there said the painter ah she is a a indeed r i was struck with her it shows how beauty will out through the guise yes it will though not always and this case doesn t prove it for the lady s attire was in the latest and most approved taste oh you mean the lady who was driving of course what were you thinking of fc a young man of forty wet day on the little but walked out as far as the garden house of his hired castle where he sat down and smoked this being on the boundary wall of his property his ear could now and then catch the tones of s voice from her cottage in the lane which skirted his fence and he noticed that there were no in it he knew why that was she wished to go out and could not he had observed before that when she was planning an a particular note would come into her voice during the preceding hours � a s of sound no doubt the effect upon her voice of her thoughts of her lover or lovers yet the latter it could not be she was pure and single hearted half an eye could see that whence then the two men possibly the was a relation there seemed reason in this when going out into the lane he encountered one of the red he had been thinking of soldiers were seldom seen in this outer part of the isle their beat from the when on pleasure was in the opposite direction and this man must have had a special reason for coming hither surveyed him he was the well beloved a round faced good fellow to look at having two little pieces of on his upper lip like a pair of and small black eyes over which the cap flat it was a hateful idea that her tender cheek should be kissed by the lips of this heavy young man who had never been by a single battle even with savages the soldier went before her house looked at the door and moved on down the crooked way to the cliffs where there was a path back to the but he did not adopt it returning by the way he had come this showed his wish to pass the house again she gave no sign however and the soldier disappeared could not be satisfied that was in the house and he crossed over to the front of her little and tapped at the door which stood nobody came hearing a slight movement within he crossed the threshold was there alone sitting on a low stool in a dark corner as though she wished to be unobserved by any casual by she looked up at him without emotion or apparent surprise but he could then see that she was a young man of forty crying the view for the first time of distress in an young girl towards whom he felt drawn by ties of extraordinary delicacy and tenderness moved beyond measure he entered without ceremony my dear girl he said something is the matter she looked assent and he went on now tell me all about it perhaps i can help you come tell me i can t she murmured is upstairs and she ll hear mrs was the old woman who had come to live with the girl for company since her mother s death then come into my garden opposite there we shall be quite private she rose put on her hat and accompanied him to the door here she risked him if the lane were empty and on his assuring her that it was she crossed over and entered with him through the garden wall the place was a shady and secluded one though through the boughs the sea could be seen quite near at hand its being distinctly audible a water drop from a tree the well beloved fell here and there but the rain was not enough to hurt them now let me hear it he said soothingly you may tell me with the greatest freedom i was a friend of your mother s you know that is i knew her and til be a friend of yours the statement was if he wished her not to suspect him of being her mother s false one but that lover s name appeared to be unknown to the present i can t tell you sir she replied unwillingly except that it has to do with my own the rest is the secret of somebody else i am sorry for that said he i am getting to care for one i ought not to think of and it means ruin i ought to get away 