Lost and Won.
CHAPTER XXIII (Contimrd)

We looked at each other in silence, his face was fuil of inquiry, mine of reproach. ' Answer me one question,* I said-- ' only one. Tell me the truth. Did yon, feeling that I was in your why, express a wish to others that I were dead ?'

His handsome face flashed with anger. He raided his head proudly, his eyes flashed with scorn. •I wonder that you should ask me such a question, Maude.' 4 That is no answer. Did you or did you not ?' 4 1 did not. lam at least a gentle man and a man of feeling,' and his face flashed yet more angrily. ' I will tell you all,' 1 said; and I related to him the conversation between his sisters which I had kwiheard. As he listened his face softened.
