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 satisfaction; for, if the owner of the 1 house on the knoll had reason to fear any great peril, how was it that he could hear so calmly tidings which in dicated at least that he was under sur Neillance? It was as if willy old fox, after a long run from the hunter, should sit contentedly watching stray 1 hound circling about him, instead of retreating post-haste out of danger. There was certainly the argument that lamar should know very well the par ticular point from which he was men, aced, and the character of the agents likely to be employed against him; but I could not find it convincing. Greatly as I disliked him, his apathy fretted me. Even enemies, when fate makes them partners, can generally be counted upon to cooperate tc win 1 the game. Now, here was I, quite ready to do my best to beat our mys- terious opponents, yet hampered, or at least discouraged, by the indiffer- ence of the player whose stakes were hazarded upon the result. The situa- ton seemed to be entirely false.
 If Jones was spy, I in turn diligent- ly played the spy upon him. No time was lost in confirming his identity with that of the man who had aroused Car l penter's suspicious, a result easily ac- complished by bringing the horse-deal- CT on a pretended errand to Rodney town and having Jones at work near the house as he drove by. After this { preliminary, I devoted many hours to 1 watching Mrs. Weston's retainer, with out getting much reward for my pains. The man went about his various tasks in the most matter-of-fact fashion, ap- rarently concerned in nothing beyond them. I had expected that as soon as he learned of my daily visits to the house on the knoll he would attempt to question me about it's occupant; but not once did he display interest in my kermit patient. In short, the only new i g1 ound given for my suspicious was furnished by habit he developed of solitary strolls about the neighborhood when evening put an end to his work on the farm. A little of his gruffness had worn off. and, barring this liking for lonely rambles, there was nothing to distinguish him from the other la borers of the vicinity. Lamar listened patiently to the reports of my observa- tions, which appeared to increase his belief that there was no cause for inn mediate alarm, though he still neglect ed to give the reasons for his convic- ton. It may be that, undisturbed as he was in his own mind. he was satis- fled to have me maintain vigilance. After all, it was not to be denied that standing guard was part of the business for which he paid me.
 But the month was a pleasant one, except for Jones and the worries he created. Mrs. Loring was doing sur prisingly well. Nobody could have ex- pected her to regard herself as any | l,ir 1,11f cd hrrf !, increasing frequency she was enjoying intervals of oblivion to the fact that she supposed herself to be sufferer. She took her harmless doses with clock work regularity, and there was not one ! of the directions given her which WAS rot carried out with scientific accuracy. 1 Simple food, good air, undisturbed sleep. and trifles enough to keep her interested were doing for her what 1 they will do for most of the race. Two or three additions had been made to her 1 code of directions, with not altogether unselfish motives on the part Of her medical adviser. For one thing, she now kept diary, in which she wrote her observations of her symptoms. Os- tensibly, this was to secure, for sci ! entific purposes, a record of the prog ress of a most notable case; actually, it was to save her doctor from q daily flood of talk. Then, too, she had been | persuaded that it was not wise to have her niece constantly with her, the the ory followed being that Miss Gray had been so long her nurse that their con- tinual association could not but remind her of her impaired health. This bit | of sophistry was far more convincing to the elder woman than to the young CT, who, though she acquiesced in the arrangement, left me no doubt that she regarded the argument as falla- cious. IEasmuch, however, as through it l secured a great deal more of her society, was content, my object thus 1 accomplished. Moreover, to this day it seems clear to me that in forcing Mrs. Loring to throw off somewhat of her acquired feeling of hclplcssness, and to learn that she was not entirely dependent on her comran.oI 5 p2;n.s-