Year: 1868

"Colonel Osborne did not wish that il
should be known" said Mrs Trevel
yan.


"And what has Colonel Osborne to dc
between you and your father in any mat
ter with which may be made acquaintr
edi will have nothing more between
you and Colonel Osborne. You shall
not see Colonel Osborne. Do you heal
me p


"Yes, l hear you, Louis"


"And do you mean to obey met By
c., you skall obey me Remember
this, that lay my positive order upon
you that you shall not see Colonel O5
borne again. You do not know it, perhaps
but you are already forfeiting your rep
utation as an honest woman, and bring
ing disgrace upon me, by your familiari
ty with Colonel Osborne.


80 Louis, do not say that said Nora


"You had better let him speak it al
at once" said Emily.


81 have said what have got to say
1t is now only necessary that you should
give me your solemn assurance that you
will obey me-"


"If you have said all that you have to
say, perhaps you will listen to me" said
his wife.


II will listen to nothing till you have
given me your promise"


"Then l certainly shall not give it
YOU"


"Dear Emily, pray, do what he tells
you," said Nora.


"She has yet to learn that it is her du.
ty to do as | tell her." said Trevelyan
"And because she is obstinate, and
will not learn from those who know
better than herself what 4 woman may
do, and what she may not, she will ruin
herself, and destroy my happiness"


II know that you have destroyed my
happiness by your unreasonable Jeal-
ousy," said the wife. "Have you con.
sidered what l must feel in having such
words addressed to me by my husband!
If l am fit to be told that must prom
Use not ~ see any man living, | cannot
be fit to be any maE's. wife" Then she
burst out into a hystericai &! of tears,
and in this condition she got out OF th"
carriage, entered her house, and hur-
red up to her own room,


Indeed, she has not been to blame"
said Nora to Trevelyan on the stair
case.


"Why has there been a secret kept
from me between her and this man;
and that, too, after l had cautioned her
against being intimate with himf l
am sorry that she should suffer; but 1t
is better that she should suffer little
now than that we should both suffer by
and by"


Nora endeavored to explain to him
the truth about the committee, and
Colonel Osborne's promised influence,
and the reason why there was to be q
secret. But she was too much in hur-
ry to get to her sister TO make
the matter plain, and he was too much
angered to listen to her. He shook his
head when she spoke Of Colonel Os-
borne's dislike to have his name men
toned in couHectiOn with the matter.
"All the world knows it," he said with
scornful laughter.


1t was in vain that Nora endcavored
to explain to him that, though all the
world might know it, Emily herself had
only Heard of the proposition as thing
quite unsettled, as to which nothing at
present should be spoken openly. II
was in vain to endeavor to make peace
on that night. Nora hurried up to her
sister, and found that the hysterical
tears had again given place to anger.
She wsuld not see her husband, unless
be would beg her pardon; and he would
not see her unless she would give the
nromise he demanded And the luS-
band and wife did not see each other
again on that night.


To be Continued.