So after I'd looked through my pockets in the room there, and hadn't found a .penny, I just thonght I'd bunk in on these trunks. I fell off once. It's funny, isn't it? -I call it one of Binghnm's jokes." He laughed good-naturedly. "Mr Bingham's jpke is funnier than you think," said she. And she told him frankly how she had) passed tho night. "I don't think you were really yourself, you sec," she said in conclusion, "but I know you better now." And she glanced at the rough tops of the two great trunks. "It is very kind of you to sympathise with me," said he. "After all, you've had tho hardest time. But, listen! Someone is coming upstairs." He stepped to tho"bannisted rail, and, turning, whispered, "It's Hallie." In a moment the head of the young , artist came into view. His face had a peculiar blue colour, and his voice,, wheji he spoke, was in a weird note. "Jarvis !" he croaked. "How came you here?" "Come in, both of you !" said Flora, "I'll tell you all about it, Hallie." And she did in the fewest possible words. "Wall, that man Bingham is a won der," said he. "Do you know, I left my latch-key inside last night, and there's no way of getting into that old, crazy studio ouilding afttr 12 o'clock. I'vn spend the night in ,the vestibule, at 10') decrees below zero. Look at my hands. I tell you nothing will ever thaw them out but dipping them in the warm bljod of Bingham." "Let me intercede for him," said Jar vis. "His error has procured for mo the acquaintance of Miss Ford, an hon our I have often wished for and shall always m'iza." v "I will take your side of the ques tion," said Flora. "The vote stands two to one in his favour, and Bingham shall live."

moment's notice, leaving .you helpless and without redress. ,-^-C IN EXCHANGE FOE '"JC ; GENUINE HOME. Yet in these colonies there are thous ands of homes where educated middle class mothers with young children — or without them, for a matter of that — would welcome with joy and pay with liberality an educated and agreeable English woman. Not for a moment would such a woman be treated as a servant or an inferior. 