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made. She looked up a train, wrote to
.JaDo Clintock, and went to her room at
tho top of the house to pack her box. Ii
was narrow slip of u room AS bare as
a nuns cell, but here sic had dreamed
beautiful dreams. and nursed the hopes
that came TO nothing. She could not say
farewell TO ner little sanctum without
sigh.
Ii was still carly in the next morning
when she began her journey. nd as the
panorama of smoky bricks shifted to
suhurh ana suburb gave place To open
country, her sad heart grew yet inore sad.
There would be only Jane to give her "A
welcome nc the journeys end.
But Jane was better than nobody at
all she had been the Evolley's faithful
servant for years. and lad then mar
ried ana gone 70 u home of her own. Her
husband was dead, but she stiii lived Ia
her little house in one OF the fashionable
terraces 1T sElnYiesea, anu sometimes took
iodgers. Kate, who WAS but slenderly
Iruvidei for, could not pay much, but
Jane Clintock loved her and lopged to
have her under her roof.
AZ last came the first glimpse of tho sea,
lying in a silvery calm under the fair au-
tumn sky. III all bad gone well. If Kato
had sold her novel, how clad she would
have been at this sight In her conui-
ton of dsappointment and distress she
could only regard herself as I'M eNilo Ana,
as she said To herself she was no longer "a
girl In Rirlho1d all things are possible,
hut when you have attained the age OF
nine-anu-twenty witnout hitting the
mark, you must admit that the fates are
against you.
Ihe littlo house in Macdonald Terrace
was pleasnntor than she hsG expected TO
md It, After ali, there was something
cnt ortul in the sight Of the face which
hau belonged 60 her old home. III Jane
was struck by hates alteio! looks sho did
no. show 10. With all her olu tact sho
made her young lady comfortable In the
little best arlor, hnd st a god luncheon
beforo her. A briIbt fire was burning
in tho grnte, for Shinglesta is cold at the
end OF October.
Il have only one lodger now " said Mrs.
ClintocK. "He Is n very quiet youcg man,
ard rents the back sitting room and bed
room. Nou can have this room all TO
yourself Miss Kate.
kato was really grateful, hut she was
still irocding over her miserable failure,
anu wondering why all the luck cnno 90
other people. Her thoughts grew unGry
and bitter rs she sat aio3e Ly tho iire.
Another woman, no doubt, would win
the faro that she had longed for all her
life. And then she recalled the look In Alan
Dovor's ewes, and rte tone If his Voice
when tuey had talked toge her Sho was
not one cf thcsi women who fall In love
on the least provocation. SiJ would rot
oven admit 10 herself that sEa WAS moro
than interested in him. Bot no had
touched bor ideal Of true mnnhu0d, ana IL
bad seemed 10 nor that he liked ner. IL
she had been successful autLoress tho
liking might havo developed into some.
thing dCerer IL was not tn he expected
that h. wouid give many thoughts 70 a
naneless nobody who could not afford 20
paw Tor her society gowns q how nard
lie wss! How cruel nj God 60 " ithold
a.s good things from y puor woman v no
had done her very beat What II thcrc
were no God ut all! Kate ut uD sud-