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And now," added Mrs. Poyntz, rising and walking across the room to her bureau, "now I will show you Lady Haughton's invitation to Mrs. Ashleigh. Here it is!" I ran my eye over the letter, which she thrust into my hand, resuming her knitting-work while I read. The letter was short, couched in conventional terms of hollow affection.

But," he added contemplatively, "there is something different about that tray. A lot of radium has been near that, and recently." "How about that bandage about Haughton's neck?" I asked suddenly. "Do you think radium could have had anything to do with that?"

And now," added Mrs. Poyntz, rising and walking across the room to her bureau, "now I will show you Lady Haughton's invitation to Mrs. Ashleigh. Here it is!" I ran my eye over the letter, which she thrust into my hand, resuming her knitting-work while I read. The letter was short, couched in conventional terms of hollow affection.

"Yes, we have rented Rose Cottage to a friend of Mrs. Haughton's, a Major Delrose, late of the th Lancers." "Oh, it's your cottage he has rented," said Lady Esmondet, awaking to interest. "Yes; Major Delrose took an awful fancy to it, and Mrs. Haughton, dear thing, took a good deal of trouble in making our arrangements; neither Miranda or myself are strong." "Strong!

Since you thought Lilian Ashleigh the only woman you could love, and since I thought there were other women in the world who might do as well for Ashleigh Sumner, it seemed to me fair for all parties that Lilian should not go to Lady Haughton's in ignorance of the sentiments with which she had inspired you. A girl can seldom be sure that she loves until she is sure that she is loved.

I have even dined at his house, and met odd people there people who lived also at the back of Holborn. But he did not ask me to go to their houses, and if he had, I must have cut him." By reminiscences of this kind of talk, Lionel was saved from any design of Mrs. Haughton's to attract his orbit into the circle within which she herself moved.

On Lilian's refusal his pride had been deeply mortified. He had gone away manifestly in more anger than sorrow. "Lady Delafield, dear Margaret Poyntz's aunt, had been most kind in trying to soothe Lady Haughton's disappointment, which was rudely expressed, so rudely," added Mrs. Ashleigh, "that it gives us an excuse to leave sooner than had been proposed, which I am very glad of.

Haugh ;" his lips could not complete the distasteful name. "My name shocks you no wonder," said Lionel, deeply mortified, and bowing down his head as he gently dropped the old man's hand. "Reproaches to myself! Ah, sir, I am here as Charles Haughton's son!" "What!" exclaimed Waife, "you know? How could you know that Charles Haughton " " I know.

The next morning Mills, in giving Sophy a letter from Lady Montfort, gave her also one for Waife, and she recognised Lionel Haughton's handwriting on the address. She went straight to Waife's sitting-room, for the old man had now resumed his early habits, and was up and dressed.

And looking more attentively at the stranger, there was in his dress and appearance something that she thought very stylish; a particular friend of Charles Haughton's was sure to be stylish, to be a man of the first water. And she loved the poor Captain's memory; her heart warmed to any "particular friend of his."