You'll see!"

The mother's intervention came to Lois as a new sur-
prise. "Whatever he's done wrong he's sorry for. We
can be sure of that." She tvuned to her husband. "Archie,
Claude was my son ; and I want to tell you now, before we
go any further, that no matter what happened between
Thor and him, I forgive it, if there's anything to for-
give.
"I know Thor feels there was something to forgive,"
Lois confessed on her husband's behalf, "wheth^ there
was or not."

"Then tell him to come to me," Ena commanded, in a
tone such as Lois had never heard from her.
"I'll tell him to go to you, if you'll ask him to stay here
with you a little longer."

"I sha'n't ask him; Archie will, won't you, Archie?"
She laid her hand on his arm, pleadingly. "If you do, it
will mean that you and I are not trying to judge our two
boys, or take sides between them "—she gave a little sob —
"now when it's no use. They quarreled, as brothers will,
but they were fond of each other, for all that."

"Thor adored Claude," Lois said, simply. "I think
he cared for him more than for any one in the world that —
that I know of."

Masterman wheeled suddenly and walked away, while
his wife made signs to Lois that they had won.
