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hands, her contour, as if he could not quite comprehend how they got created ; then he dropped into the more satisfactory atage which discerna no particulars.

He talked but little; she said much. The homeliness of the Fellmers, to her view, though they were regarded with such awe down here, quite disembarrassed her. The squire bad become so unpractised, had dropped so far into the shade during the last year or so of his life, that he had almost forgotten what the world contained till this evening reminded him, His mother, after her firat moments of doubt, appeared to think that he must be left to his own guidance, and gave her attention to Joshua.

With all his foresight and doggedness of aim, the result of that dinner exceeded Hatborough’s expectations. In weaving his ambitions he had viewed his sister Rosa as a slight, bright thing to be helped into notice by bis abilities; but it now began to dawn upon him that the physical gifta of nature to her might do more for them both than nature’s intellectual gifts to himself. While be was patiently boring the tunnel Rosa seemed about to fly over the mountain.

He wrote the next day to hia brother, now occupying his own old rooms in the theological college, telling him exultingly of the unanticipated début of Rosa at the manor-house. The next post brought him a reply of congratulation, dashed with the counteracting intelligence that his father did not like Canada— that his wife had deserted him, which made him feel so dreary that he thought of returning home.

Tn his recent satisfaction at his own successes Joshua Halborough had wellnigh forgotten his chronic trouble—latterly screened by distance. But it now returned upon him ; he saw more in thie brief announcement than his brother seemed to sce. It waa the cloud no bigger than a man’s hand.