than the other rear wheel and, moreover, it was flat on one side, so that when they started to conclude the

riage progressed and when they we

ink of that man

lora's father,

of c

ony Seaver, a rarely cultured woman, should have married such a man, and again it

dropping her voice, although there was absolutely no chance of

ess you with the idea that they are other than what they seem, are leading double lives, or are endeavoring to conceal some irregularity of conduct. You've a faculty of reading t

dignantly. "Didn't you yourself say there are two

er should have trusted so fully a man who impresses me as a churl. His o

ully justify my remark that there's a mystery in that family. Di

nel Hathaway, r

hen a student of modern novels, a man who reads and reads to keep his mind

er was interested in a young artist of exceptional talent, and he took me to a gallery to show me what this man could do. I am not an art critic, as you are aware, my dear, but this landscape of Jason Jones appealed to me as delightful. Captain Bo

ilent for a while

f a great ambition? Would you guess him an arti

ely. Had I not known something of Jason Jones' history I might have felt, on making his acquaintance to-day, that he is not an ordinar

e," she in

d unostentatiously, enjoying nature's choice gifts and content with t

cate properly," declared the girl. "

h her excellent business reputation. Her daughter not being of age-let me see: she must have been but eleven when her mother passed away-there would be a guardian appointed for

e generous, but he isn't spendin

ughter's fortune may increase during the years of her

ear little thing, wild and untamed but very lovable, I'm sure; so the fault must lie with her boorish father. Allowing that once

aves the sea and crosses the plateau to the town. You'll like Sorrento, I'm sure, for