" Yes ; that must be it ! I — I — I tore it up. You will find the fragments on the floor, if you think them worth preserving !"

" What a goose you are, Castalia !" ex claimed her husband, leaning back in the carriage and closing his eyes.
Now the fact was, that Algernon dis tinctly remembered having placed Minnie's note in a drawer of a little secretaire which he kept habitually locked, and of which the key was at that moment in his waiscoat pocket. And the discovery that his wife had in some way or other obtained access to the said secretaire, gave him, for reasons known only to himself, abund ant food for conjecture and reflection during the rest of the drive home.
(To he continued.)

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be allowed so to fade away, and never be troubled with pain or pleasure or any emotion more. Even a loud and energetic squall from the other end of the room did not arouse me.
"A fine child," said the doctor.
" Very fine, sir," responded the nurse — who had been torturing me for twenty four hours past with wise saws, question able jokes, and worrying attentions, until I had began to regard her as an emissary of the fiend himself — " I don't know as I ever seen a finer. She's a regular beauty, she is ; and such lungs, too ! "

These words, accompanied by another prolonged squall, made me feel a little curious. Some of the few pleasant antici pations I had ventured to indulge in flickered back upon my memory. ""Doctor !" 1 said faintly.
