The cold wind blow ing on her tired frame, caused her to shiver and tumble, and at the same time it acted like a sudden tonic bracing and strengthening her nerves. She looked quickiy up, the stars shone above her with intense brightness in the clear sky, and among them the red placid Mars so rarely seen, was distinctly visible ; in stantly the words of Longfellow's exquisite poem flashed into her mind :— " Oh, star of strength, I see tbee stand And BtnVe upo» my pa-n, Thou beckonetst with the mailed hand And I am strong again. The star of the unconquered will He rises in my breaso : Serene and resolute, and still, And calm and belf-possest. Oh fear not in a world like thh, And thou sualt know ere lonsr. Know bow sublime a thing it is To suffer and ho strong. •' To suffer and be strong," repeated Eva, going back into the house and clos ing the door as securely as she could in the teeth of the bitter blast. "It is easy to say that we all suffer, but 1, at least, am not strong. " She returned to the sick room, feeling her way cautiously through the dark pas sages that were by this time as familiar to her as if she had known them all her life. " See, I h&ve brought you some fresh 1 water," 'she said, leaning over the patient [ and putting the glass to her lips. Maggie drank deeply, the sick fancy was satisfied. Eveline shook up and arranged the pillows, placing a coolfi'< sh one under the fevered head, and for a moment the inva lid Beemed at rest. Only for a moment, however, and then she recommenced the incoherent babbling, which sometimea fell almost to a whisper, and at others rose to a shriek. "He shan't have the letters. No, no, I will hide : them and burn them, and ewear that she did not write. Who is

Eveline 1 Eveline, Eveline ; hush, hush, listen to me, I hate her, I hate her. She shall never marry him. I will marry him myself and be a lady, roll in my carriage and spatter her with the mud fr©m my wheels. Ha ! Ha ! Ha ! She loves him and he loves her, but I've got him, I've I got him. 