Her breath stopped for a few inoments, but that could not be seen. More than a month in fact, ever since Geoffrey Bellingham went away." As he carelessly uttered the last words his glance passed over her. Perhaps I ought to have confessed to him, but I am a wretchedly undecided mortal about such things, and I have beea debating for the last month what I had better do. Randolph is a gentleman of the old school, not a good dissimulator, and he accidentally betrayed himself to me one day without knowing it. "You must not think me a Paul Pry, but Mr. Randolph," he resumed, with the slightest accent of interrogation. Her sad heart began to take a little courage. He had known, and yet had not withheld his respect, the respect of a gentleman. Between persons of a certain order of integrity assurances of such a kind are superfluous. Marana abroad." She did not need to ask him whether he had kept her secret. "Did you know that I was an actress as well as a singer?" "I knew what you refer to the first moment we met," answered he, with a friendly smile. "I came to ask you to help me respect myself," she said, with a pause between. "You were an enigma to me at first," he replied immediately, "but I respected you involuntarily, even before I knew that I was right in doing so." He met her look as he spoke, and she feit that he spoke what he meant. Dinsmore?" demanded she, fixing her eyes on him. I bope it maj' soon bring you back to us?" "Do you respect me, Mr. It must be pleasant to you to feel how much respect and regard, as well as renown, you have won since you came here. He went on: "I see by the papers that you are soon to leave us. I believe I should make a pretty good aunt." The lady feit the kindness with which he endeavored to put her at her ease, and a faint color dawned in her cheeks. "I have often tried to persuade her that the morning is the proper time to receive calis, but she is still wedded to her superstitions. "Yon come in good season," said he "the owl and I have just been talking about you." "I did not aak tbr Mrs. and at the same time gave the servant a look which intimated that he wonld be not at home while this visitor remained. He shook hands with her with the quiet eordiality of a man constantly in the habit of receiving faiuous prime donne in his private sitting room. By the time she appeared he had recovered his genial serenity. Contrary to his nsual ctistom in sv.eh cases, he jumped up, tossed his cigar into the lire, gave a pull to his collar and a jerk to his coat, and bade the servant conduct Hile. Onernorning while tluis occnpied he heard.a carriage stop at the. seated in his stufly chai r, and incidentally tried to stare his great white owl nnt of countenauce but he hesitated still. Cadwalader but that would only have been au indirect way i 't' forcing his own hand. He might have evaded the ilifficulty liy handing over the matter which troubled him toMrs. Wallie Dinsmore liad been indulging in a good deal of casuistry of late, owing to a desire to reconcile his theory that hmnan beings ought to help one auother witb his temperamental aversiĆ³n to bang mixed up in other people's affairs. Copyright bt'Amkrican Puess Associatiox, Mr.
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