Year: 1878

~ should not like to see their faces when I
gave tho invitation, though. Bride you
| shonld reoollect our horror OF patronage, ana
take in to consideration the added bitterness
| that tho sudden reversal of our positions Co
wards each other must give to offers OF help
from don't see how they could bear to
| live in Lesbia's house without some plausible
| reason being invented to induce them to do
it. thought had succeeded In providing
suoh an ingenious one; and this miserable
business be fl % me. All, there was great
deal destroyed last night in the tearing up Of
those sheets besides my poor criticisms.'


II wise my interview with Miss DAILY were
| well over. do not look forward to it,"
| "Do you suppose she is going to confide it
| all to you."


"soms little part. perhaps-pot all but let
mothers room, and joiped Pelham on the ter
| race. When she has talked it out with him,
| she will be ready for me-"
"Let her understand d that am not curious
| shall ask no questions"
"As you are going away in an hour or two,
and shall not see you again for q month,
may venture perhaps to make this assertion.
| By the time we meet again your curiosity vii!
| probably be SO far diminished as to allow of
your occasionally talking to me without trying
10 orm out the secret"


mothers room, had copied Pelham taking
moody turn on the terrace alone and running
down stairs quickly. and through the open
ped her hand through his arm. II turned
rather Grossly,


"Its too cold and damp for you to be ont
without anything on your head" he said.
For the splendid sunrise had been succeeded
by q march of storm clouds across the sky, the
distance was shrouded in thick darkness. and
few heavy sullen drops were falling from


GAS if bad not been rained upon all my
lIfe" said Ellen. "Pelham you must let me
have g word or two with you. on. what q
and heard the Angelus bell.
SIT was only last night"


"The weather may we'll be changed; it is
not 40 altered as my feelings are."


"What has happened to change them 7"


"Last night thought we should stay here
all the simmer happily with Lesbis, and now
know that am walking up and down this
again az long as live will come here again.
Pelham, did yon not understand at breakfast
that MI: and Miss Thornley, ,,s suspect a. me of


"You but You did not do it p


"Oh no."


"Then why on earth did not you say sol
Come with me and say it now"


mo, for cannot Prove my words can't
explain the suspicious circumstances and
Pelham, will confide in you, and no one else.
L know who did it, and mean never to tell"


"Then you are very much to blame, and
will have nothing to say to it. supp 1se it's
Malsohy you are screening. You and Connor
choose to look on him as q victim. on account
when it comes to sacrificing your own charac'


'sIf they can't find out what am" interrup-
ted Ellen, drawing herself up, but with q sch
in her voice, 81 cannot help it. Pelham, dear,
it is not Malachy am screening. Will you
walk back to the end of the terrace with me,
and listen quietly to what have to say be-
fore you speak to either Of the Thornleys"


"If you like"


Pelham, do you remember the evening
when we crossed over from England that last
time !"


"Of course remember; what of its"


"You were annoyed with me because l
wanted to go on deck when it was windy.
You thought it unladylike, or something, and
we dsputsd I'D until papa came aud took me up
to walk with him. He had overheard our lit:
tie quarrel, and all the time we were pacing
the deck together, he was talklng 10 me ABOUT
you, praisipg you and reprovipg me for not
minding you. 1t was as il he knew it was the
last long talk he and should ever have"


tPraisirg mef"


Eyes he told me to trust t , you more than
to Connor, for that you were the brother to be
depended on, though you pretended then to
care so little for home. He said he knew you
had true heart at the bottom, and however
you might be annoyed by our different ways,
be was sure you wonld stand by me and pro-
tect me if trouble came upon us. He was
afraid, he ssid that Connor would always be
more of a charge than protection, and that
to you"


his face flushing with emotion II had no idea
that he thought in that way OF me. used to
believe that he never noticed me-that he
hardly knew anything about me-"
"Ah, you were wrong there; he was always
noticing"


'But disgusted him by my reserve, just as
disgust Connor and you, so that you cant
now believe how earnestly desire to help
you"


Papa understood you, you see, in spite of
reserve and am going to show you to-day
that take you at his word, by asking you to
is in q wsy you won't like, and though can
only give you half confidence"
"Of course I will stand by you, Ellen-who
else should but 1 don't see bow can do it
effectually unless you will tell me the whole
truth"


Bot that is Just the favor am asking of
| you, dear-Go act for me without knowing all
my reasons. 1 feel tha we ought not to stay
here day longer, and l want you to take it
tioning me too closely why it must be so. 1t
is great deal to ask, know, but think you
will do it for me. have thought it all out
since daylight this morning. You said last
night that it was tier to live on favor. but
| how much keener will be the bitterness if we
| feel that we are acting treaCherouslY BY our