In fcho first place, it was just a pleasant Walk from Rodney, and it was arranged for Archibald to study with Bruce there, under *ory favourable condition?. And while the coionel was sitting watching Bruce arrange Wa library they fell into conversation about tnenavv kirk, and a piece of land admirably situated to accommodate three villages was i»ven by the colenel for the purpose. In w> RiA&txt?ipe, tb.e larga granary at luner

grey was to be fibbed with benches.and used as a place of worship. And no emotion retains long its first agitation. Life, however disarranged, soon accommodates itself to fresh conditions. In a month Archibald was as much ab home as if he had grown up under Rodney roof. Bertha's disappointment, ignored from the first, was now seldom spoken of. Ib was a dead issue. Blair had gone out of their lives wibhoub protest and wibh very little regret. No letter came from him. The colonel never expected one, but Bertha for some weeks looked with strained and anxious eyes afc every mail. Sometimes the sense of cruel forgetfulness was too much to endure long in public. She would sew for a few minutes, every moment growing paler, and then, with a pitiful •smile, make some trifling excuse for leaving the room. But even Bertha was forgetting, and one hot day in July she had a visitor who quite cured her.
