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a cosey aspect to his room, and a paternal one to himself. Presently he turned to the child and kissed her now blooming cheeks ; and, looking wistfully at Car’-line, kissed her also.

“I don’t see how I can send ee back all them miles,” he growled, “now you've come all the way o’ purpose to join me, But you must trust me, Car'line, and show you've real faith in me, Well, do you feel better now, my little woman ?”

The child nodded, her mouth being otherwise occupied.

“I did trust you, Ned,in coming; and I shall always !”

Thus, without any definite agreement to forgive her, he tacitly acquiesced in the fate that Heaven had sent him; and on the day of their marriage (which was not quite so soon as he had expected it could be, on acconnt of the time necessary for banns) he took her to the Exhibition when they came back from charch, as he had promised. While standing near a large mirror in one of the courte devoted to furniture, Car'line started, for in the glass appeared the reflection of a form exactly resembling Mop Ollsmoor’s—so exactly that it seemed impossible to believe anybody but that artist in person to be the original. On passing round the objects which hemmed in Ned, her, and the child from a direct view, no Mop was to be seen, Whether he were really in London or not at that time was never known ; and Car'line always stoutly denied that her readiness to go and meet Ned in town arose from any rumor that Mop had also gone thither ; which denial there waa no reasonable ground for doubting,

And then the year glided away, and the Exhibition folded itself up and became a thing of the past. The park trees that had been enclosed for six months were