why m joined so in this message to miss but i accepted hi statement with a bow where is your brother i asked is he on the steamer with you no he answered with a start why do you ask that perhaps it was the knowledge that she i indicated miss with a motion of my head would rather not see him and m looked at each other would rather not see interrupted i did not know that she had any such feeling the old trouble we never could seem to under stand each other quite do you imagine i asked that she is particularly anxious at this moment to look on the face oi her child s father m strode a step forward but grasped him firmly by the sleeve her child s father exclaimed the former in that fierce whisper of his who told you this why i responded astounded she did for one and throwing off the hand that would have restrained him took two steps more and his breath was in my face that he said or for heaven s sake interrupted wait she will hear you she will see that you out of arc quarrelling let me try to this knot a word i insist with a powerful movement the speaker drew the other back and began to me what did madame say exactly he asked quote her literal words if you can much i tried to answer him she said why you told me the same thing are we all crazy that your brother was s father gave his companion a wise look then he said to me but she did not use the word i am not sure but what is the difference that in your brother s name is it not m could not be restrained she said his brother and you thought she of course m s face was in smiles it is all explained then said beaming also i have two brothers you see it was the other one the other one this made the fourth or fifth person i had accused of being the father of that unhappy child was it to rest here i wondered or were there still more to follow it was the other one repeated after exchanging a pressure of the hand with his companion in short it was here we have been alluding to all the time as m his name is and it was to him that the ceremony of marriage with your sweet in a trap american friend took place in the at i glanced at her child to her heart at the other end of the deck and her aspect of alarm justified the revelation so this was the man she had dreaded to meet that she had fled from to avoid and after all her pains we were at sea with him on a french vessel in as pretty a trap as could be imagined were he disposed to assert his authority over her there was no place more suitable we could rely only on his forbearance i am the husband of that lady and the father of that boy said slowly yet i have no wish to claim them against their will now that have met so unexpectedly however i would like to talk long enough with to her mind of some of the things she has against me m i want if possible to set myself right before my wife will you tell her that for me bowing assent i left the gentleman and went to miss s side i know what you are going to say she broke out and i have made up my mind to refuse everything this seemed so unjust that i was moved to a slight deception has it occurred to you i inquired that he can do what he pleases on a vessel that flies the french flag but he asks very little he only wants to show you that you have charged him in your thoughts with wrongs he never committed he will not in you long i think judging from what he out of said to in is it not better to hear him now ana have it when i alluded to m s rights miss s lip grew firm and her independent spirit seemed about to assert itself in some determined phrase when i changed and spoke of a matter of policy she hesitated and then agreed with me very well she said but do not go far away stay where you can hear my voice if i call you she spoke like a child afraid of some ordeal who wants the comforting assurance that its parent will be close at hand and i suggested had not his nurse better take him to the she caught the child to her in sudden alarm how can you think of such a thing she exclaimed he might have it stolen while we were talking no i will keep the baby here and i will meet this man together m thanked me when i brought the message that he could have the desired interview but he said farther that he wanted me by all means to be a in it he realized he said that madame would feel nervous if left in his sole presence and he preferred that her pleasure should be consulted in all things accordingly i accompanied him to miss s side of the boat m i said this gentleman asks me to listen to what he has to tell you and i have consented to do so if it is your wish miss i can call her nothing else try as i changed to a rosy red at my words she turned her eyes toward me avoiding those of m caught in a trap and bowed it was plain that she was suppressed excitement of no ordinary character that every nerve was at its when m began to 