” “Eh?” “I’ve forgotten something. If Gerald knew, what should stop Gosse from finding out? Perhaps he was even now at the lawyer. It would be difficult to find another human being subjected to so many angles of attack as Spurlock. Then he sat down and filled his pipe slowly and thoughtfully. She flew up from her stool and faced the door. Diane suggested to him that he retire early, and he did so agreeably, halfknowing it to be an order. " With this assurance, and at the reiterated request of Thames, the little girl reluctantly withdrew. Then she threw the volume away with a little impatient exclamation. She studied the face and tried to visualize the body, clothed in the dress which had created the spinsters' astonishment. Sepulchre's bell is for ever ringing in my ears—oh!" "If that's the case," observed Wood, "I'm surprised you should like to have such a frightful picture constantly in view as that over the chimney-piece. She set her fingers in the hair and tugged, drawing him to a sitting posture and stooping so that her eyes would be on the level with his when he awoke. He did like her, anyhow; he was always pleased to be with her.