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Continued.

These and similar comments, lell
on the ears of Lord Kildonan and his
companion, as, allowing Crosmont and
the lady time to get away without dan
ger of a premature meeting, they fol-
lowed them out of the house. The
air of the narrow court was cold, re-
freshing, exhilarating as draught OF
iced wine after the sitting atmosphere,
the evil, heated faces, the low-voiced
oaths. the pestilential sights and
sounds of the place they had left; but
the recollection of it all seemed to
Armathwaite to hang about him like
a haunting, noxiOus vapour, poisoning
the night At the end of the court
they stopped, hearing voices.
'Tf you had only let me go on,
should have won it all back" Lady Kill
DOMAIN was saying, in broken. husky
voice of retful complaint.
"Well, you couldn't stay. The train
goes at three. You have only just
time to catch it now" said Crosmont's
voice, harshly.
What do l care about the train?
don't care if never get back! / won't
go back! I'm sick of it all! | can't
lead the life any longer; I've dsne
with it-Ive-"
But Crosmont was leading Ler
gradually along in the direction of the
station, and her querulous words be-
came inaudible as he induced her, lit
tie by little, partly by persuasion and
partly by force, to quicken her pace.
Lord Kildonan turned Aymathwaites
steps in the opposite direction, to
wards the side street in which they
had left the cab. The driver had kept
faith, and was waiting, beguiling the
time away, hoyever, with a sleep in
side his vehicle. He woke up with a
start, not having expected them so
soon. In two moments they were on
their way to Lime Street Station. The
gentlemen did not exchange a word on
the way; the younger did not dare
the elder did not care to break a ST.
lence which lasted even when, having
arrived at their destination, and paid
the cabman. they walked up and down
the platform waiting for the two per-
sons they had pursued. Armathwaite
knew, without asking a question, that
the moment was approaching when
Lord Kildonan proposed to meet the
guilty couple face to face. With his
nerves strained to the utmost tension
of torturing, apprehensive expectancy,
he accompanied the elder man up and
down. starting like a girl at the oc-
casiOnal sounds that echoed loudly in
the huge, empty station, where the
lights were turned down low, and the
night mlsts still hung in the dim cor.
ners, and the air was raw and cold
Suddenly. before any sign of life or
movement had begun to herald the
starting of train-hefOre the porters,
with their lanterns glowing yellow in
the mist, had begun to swarm out from
remote corners to their short spell of
activity, before disappearing again
like underground elves when the en-
CINE had puffed, with a shrek and a
hiss, slowly out of the station, there
broke upon the MISUNDERSTANDING ears
or the two gentlemen the sound of
wheels rafting over the stones.
There they are" said Lord Kill
donan quietly 81 thought they would
have come on foot"
He paused in his walk to say this
and, as soon as the words were out OF
his mouth, he went on again He wa.
wi Ary !, IA
platform from which the Branksome
train would start, and he gave a glance
at his watch to see exactly how Ions
they would have to wait.
THE train does not start for twelv,
minutes he said, still walking on
but listening to the rattle of the wheel.
as the cab drove up nearer and nearer
to them.
1t stopped, and as he heard his wife,
voice speaking in petulant tones
Lord Kildonan drew the doctor benin,
pile of empty baskets which stoo,
on the platform at that point ant
waited, They heard the cab slowl
turn, and drive away; they heard tn
lady's voice, again crying out in pee,
ish accents that she was tired-tired I
death; that she must rest. or sh
should cry: that she could not tax
the long Journey to The Crags tonigh
that it would kill her!
Come back with me. Ned; | can
go alone; | won't so alone, te" yo
| have feeling that it is all comm
out, and | don't care. don't care.
am worn out; my head swims; | can
so alone!"
Crosmont reasoned with her ca
nestly, angrily anxiously. He toI
her she must go back; that she ha
no walking to do; Anne Matthew
would drive FER back as usual in h,
little cart, and she would slip up
the house as usual by the entrance n
body knew of, and no one would 50
But upon the feveriSh excitement
play there had followed a reaction
stronger than usual because of II
restless and uneasy state of mind
which, since her last night.expediuo
che ho1 livNd The nrox;,r ~.Asze D..