The Arkansaw traveler., 1884-08-23

to the sea, took turn on the Esplanade. and up the cliff by the old town. About half mile from Rocksedge Iies . fine old ruined church, and the colonel, to my unexpected relief, profnssed himself bit of an arch3oloTisl nnd expressed vish se explore t: As ts5 ss sAs read to che stzticn, l ordered ny trap to meet us there, and olf ve ssnr1od
 The colonel had . gxsak deal to say about ruin1 and VI fInmnDd eurseives harmlessly for some tine szscinx ont foundations, peexing iu1o holes and corner4 and examinfnGvsseie cf ancient decoratise york. He wss = he middle q explaining an1heGifssivs1y how the uAolc place caue = be built, when felt . cold thriu sAoee 1hfough me e voice l knew sounde6 through the uoo2ess aisle hom the othef aide of the nnouldering wall.
 3I don't vans to hurry you, but ism. it almost dne to start 2" cried. The colonel had turned away, and vas digging excitedly in a conner with his umbcciia.
 Roman, dis&inctly Roman !n declared he, straighteniag himself It's not easy to mistake the handivork. lust see here for yourself Travers. There has been an inner coating of cement grant you that" (As if had ever disputed it. And the voices drawing nearer and nearer) Have that carefully cleared, and you'll find an example of herring bone work" (There was Scraps black nose round the gap in the wall. aThe Saxons initiated it, you know, but they hadn't the stuff to work with"
 Of course they did there's some up there," declared. "A yellow Japanese parasol appeared at the opening, and paused).
 Where? Saxon hering-bone work ?H asked Wriothesley eagerly.
 Of course; up there. Lots of 1t" and dragged him up grassy mound where was once chancel. aDont you see something like it hereabouts ?' Another minute and we should have descended safely on the far side, but. as luck would have 1t, in that minute Scrap spied me, and with sociable bark came tearing up to us, May after Scrap. She stopped on seeing us and bowed demurely.
 "Who's that:" demanded the colonel -as great connoisseur, knew, in female beauty as in Roman tiling. He caugh, my arm, and Mrs. Pierpoint stepped into the sunlighted space in front of us.
 Eh. What" and Colonel Wriothes- Icy adjusted his pince-nez in violent hurry. l saw the startled look on her face-the detected look. 1 saw, with a sense of sickening humiliation, her glance of dismay at the sight of me. But all my worst imaginings paled and faded before the shock that followed.
 Eh 7" cried the colonel. at is-no really-little May Agar and-Lady Dor othy Champneys," and he trotted down the bank with outstretched hands te greet my godmother
 l don't know what the proper bearing of the hero of such a dramatic situation should have been; only know what 1 did. l made of as quickly as possible. and without word. don't know what the colonel thought, or how he got into the dog-cart and away to the train. heard his wheels roll of as I sat on a fragment of an overturned pillar in a se- cluded angle of the ruined transept, hold ing my head in my hands and struggling with the bewilderment of this most as- founding revelation. Lady Dorothy Champneys. Mrs Pierpoint! My god mother here, all the time comparing my letters and knowing that considered her an impostor. To whom had been writ ing, and with which was in love? Both were the same, of course but, 1 lifted my dazed head, and-there she stood.
 Are you very ang-past all forgive ness " she demanded, in soft little voice. " l. seemed such an innocent little plot and all for Mays sake. l didn't know how utterly it had failed till your letter me this morning."
 She suddenly blushed red as a rose. kept a pitiless silence.
 You seemed to set against the poor child, and wrote so disagreeably and sar- castically about the matchmakers and their victims, that it vas temptation to give you lesson ; or at any rate to de- termine that May should have a fair chance-tEat you should be forced into forming an unprejudiced judgment of her. It was such an opening P she pleaded. We came home unexpectedly. had absolutely nothing to do, and mo- where in particular to 70, and vas just 'tss6 VA AssS POSoSoauSy ~ k3kluR you unawares at Rocksedge, when in came veur letter, telling me even the train by which you were going down there your ,eHn
 So the meeting was q pus-up thing? ?'
 Didn't tell you soT slightly laugh. ng.
 And the photograph ?" T demanded, till seern.
 That was taken after the theasricals. You know told you all about them. vas disgusted when 1 found you took hat thing for a genuine likeness too dis Iu:sed to undeceive you, especially as hadn't better to send"
 And you read all the letters 1 wrote o you about yourseif?"
 Of course" Altering for the first ime. "What then?n
 This. You were acting part for ew days amusement. while ] was unhap- .sI~, s t&