Herbert discovered that the fracture could be
repaired at the nearest to wig and that Uie
plae would be within reach xxhcnhe went
out for a walk. In fear of another disaster
if lie put it hick in the hig ho opened a
dmxver in the table and laid the two frag
ments carefully inside at the further end. In
doing this his hand touched something that
had been aireadv placed iu the drawer. He
drew it out and found lli.it it vx.isaNmk —
tin* same b,sik that Mrs. I’resty (surely Hie
evil genius utThe family again) bad bidden
from Randal's notice amt hail been forgotten
when she left the hotel.
Herbeit Instantly recognized tin- gilding
on the cover, imitated Innn a design invent
ed by himself. He remembered the inscrip
lion, and yet lie read it again:
■ Tv* dear Catherine from Herbert, on the
anniversary of onr marriage.”
The Nxik drop|**d from his hand on the
table as if it had been a nexv jiain.
His xvile (lie pciv;>tod in thinking of her
Ws his wile) must have ix-citpksl tiie room
might peiTuqis have beeu the person whom
he had succeeded as a guest at the hotel.
Did she still value his present to her in re
membrance of old times? No! She valued
it so little that she had evidently forgotten
it. Perhaps her maid might have included
it among the small articles of luggage. IVr
hajis dear little Kitty might have put it into
one of her mother's trunks. In any case,
there it was, abandoned in the drawer of a
table at an bote!.
