„ , "I am glad I have convinced you," he says, affectionately, "I want to see all you wom«n friendly and happy together. The children are dear little things, and poor Cissy, in spite of her foibles, has a very affectionate nature." " You dear, generous, unwise fellow ! his cousin says, shaking her head at him. But he is to well pleased and satisfied with the way the matter has arranged itself, to ask her in what way she thinks him unwise. " I shall write to Cissy Angerstem to morrow, Kate, and tell her she needn't , bother herself any more,' Captain Bel lairs says to Kate that night. " 1 11 tell her you'll see to any alterations that may be needed, and overlook the furnish-, ing, and then she'll rest' satisfied that it will all be done tastefully and well. "If I were Kate I should just let Mis. Angerstein come and exert her own lazy lymphatic little mind about it all her self-if ehe is to come," Mrs. Pargan Bays. « i But Kato only bows her head ana answers, 

having robbed her of her freshest youth, by his scarcely veiled repugnance to the Ceaseless "well-liking" beauty who has tricked Frank into an engagement. On his side, he is rather pleased with the way in which he has expressed his impression of Miss Grange. It must be understood that Captain Bellairs is not a dogmatic man, nor is he a man addicted to the habit of speaking as if he were speaking to an audience. But he is human, and he likes to feel that when he talks well, he is listened to with attention ,by someone who is capable of giving a verdict on both the matter and the manner of his speech.  " There's another woman I could men tion who will never burn ta™el fu P>.. h ? goes on. ' ' Cissy Angerstein will keep that pretty childishly flexible face to the end, and only look like an aged baby when she's eighty.". , ,„ " I wonder what has become of her I Kate saya meditatively. 