y week.

    `tep  like ty do ty; but just as tis reasonable enougo bear direct taxation, so St Oggs  got force of motive enougo build and endohe force of folly.

    `Did tle Lucy, y. `I never  kind - I t  we were doing.

    `Im sure ep ionately; `your conduct in going out to-nig I kno ttom of it.

    `O, you too y blus ended. But it acitly understood t Step come in trengt tacit understanding  t saying good-by until after four.

    Maggie ed in tly after dinner,  o o tting and nodding ea-time. Maggie ooping to caress tiny silken pet, and comforting resss absence, ep on tep raig o see er dinner! en complained t te at Park ly been

    beating: it ural s accustomed to receive visitors alone.  as o, to enter t ead of by too, and certainly looked as foolis and self-possession can be expected to look, as ating improvisation,

    `You are surprised to see me again, Miss tulliver - I ougo apologise for coming upon you by surprise, but I ed to come into to our man to ro I ;Maid of Artoisquot; for your cousin. I forgot to her?

    `Yes, said Maggie, e knoo do, sat down again.

    Step,  doe a it irely neion.

    `ell, you pampered minion! said Stepo pull t drooped over Maggies arm. It  a suggestive remark, and as t follo up by furt, it naturally left tion at a stand-still. It seemed to Stepion in a dream t o do, and  o go on stroking Minnys  it :  Maggie, and t s  o trange eyes of isfied and quite reasonable after t.  it  of monomania o  t long look from Ma