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satisfied with his explanation.
"Just like a man." she murmured.
"Men are always such a time over
everything. 1 should have taken the
cream of that newspaper column at
a glance. Do give me the paper,
Abel, and let me tell you all about
IT,
The Vicar, however, was too much
absorbed to pay much heed to her
words, besides, he was grasping the
situation of affairs to a certain extent.
at is inconceivable," he said,
"what strange things do occur in the
outer world, from which we are cut
off. We ought to be thankful, eh,
MimiP Thankful that we have no
contact and fellowship with the ter
rible condition in which three-tenths
of the people live who represent So
ciety in this corrupt nineteenth CEN
tury."
For goodness sake, Abel, do not
treat me to n of your homilies on
tho nineteenth century. You know
very well that we should be delight
cd to get out of This dreary place If
we only had the money to take U.s."
The fretful lady spoke honestly.
The wears remarks had been to
some extent dishonest, but, good
worthy man, he strove with all his
heart to be contented, and they were
the outcome of his self persuasions,
that he was quite satisfied with his
resting place on that dreary moor.
He recognized, however, that there
was truth in his wife's protest, and
did not therefore attempt to contra
dict her. He did not wish to irritate
her further 30 he told her in a few
brief sentences the state of the case,
as the Morning illumination revealed
it, informing her that one Glendin-
ming had been taken up for the sup
posed murder by drowning of Pierce
Vaughan, and that it had happened
in Sir Clement Dunravan's park, he
himself having given witness on the
occasion. Lisbeth, since she had not
mentioned, therefore there was alb
solutely no connecting link between
the marriage that had taken place in
the little church on the moor and the
peope concerned in this murder.
1t was the coincidence of names
that 80 took the vicar aback that he
could not bring himself to believe
otherwise but that there was more in
the matter than met the eye at n
mere cursory glance.
Glendinning was by no means a
common name. Why was Glendin-
ming the supposed murderer of this
Mr.. Vaughan? Could it be possible
that the few %unguarded words he
himself had spoken that day in the
T~emple-the certificate he had after
wards sent, at Mr.. Vaughan's re-
quest, had brought about the murder
of this unhappy man? And a cold
SILVER passed down the wears back
as these thoughts coursed through
his brain, and his florid compile xior
lost a great portion of its usual rud-
diness, for, if this were SO, would he
not blame himself for this mans
death, since that unruly member, his
tongue, had been the indirect causeG
Mrs. Singleton had taken up the pa
per which the vicar had thrown on
the table, and was devouring the ac-
count Of the trial with a greed that
was the result of mind starvation
hence the scrupulously conscientious
Vicar had time to mould his thoughts
into a block that for some long time
to come would prevent him from in
%nocently enjoying, as he had hither-
10 done, the pleasures and amenities
of life.
IT he ever succeeded in discover
.ug the reai truth of the the matter,
alas, for the vicar, for would not this
o'ock become hardened to such a
degree that it would never mel,
away out of his mind?
lie did not tell his wife how much
he was agitated by the perusal of the
trial; he never told Mimi anything
which might annoy her. She, h2w-
ever, was by no a 30 s%crupulous.
She looked up from the paper, and
noticed his changed expression.
81 won't have it, Abel" she cried.
81 will not have It'll"
"Have what, love?"
81 won't have you meddling with
what does not concern me-"
"How have | meddled?" he asked
as meekly as a chastised child.
. "You are going to. | see it in
your eyes. You are going to try and
find ont what these people have to
do with the people you married, and
it is no business of yours, my dear
Abel, none whatever. 1t is your
business to marry and bury and
christen, but not to ask questions.
| should not be surprised if it is that
tongue of yours, and sending the
certificate to the lawyer, of whom
you knew very little, that has
brought abont this unfortunate