A wecSf passed, iwwewe ; and, though Mrs,, Prowitt kapv gas burning iti: 6h« evenings, haci fresh water put daily ints ths pitcher, and hung clean toweia upon tba rack, neither Mmfopf no* hi# friend appeared

For twelve d*ys sne a&a. tofuw preparation j made : but upen the thirteentfl M afford 1 » triers-* | came St was eaVf-pasT eight wnsrj riift amid j admitted him ir. the parlour. At this hour a! £ J the ledgers were out pursuing theri- various j evening pastimes, except John Baylor, who was j practising upon hit clarionet in his seoo«c, ! - || hoor xMOffi, Mr*. Prewitt went to tho parlour j expecting tc find a young man of about i Wolford's ags, but sh? whs surprised to s see a gentleman of probably (30. He j was, howoyef, well-preservec and active and j was dressed very much becte-i than any one shs J had ever lodged. There was an unmistakable j air oi fehe Avenue about him. that set Mrs. Pro- S witt to thinking she had seen him and i| to wondering where it had been. He carried aij fudging blue-bag of hsavy esatarial, and his whols bearing and appearance were those of a busy lawyer, Mrs. Prowitt made these observa tions distinctly, as was her habit, but later oc currences ihdmtod them in her mind. , In re. ialing exactly how tho old lawyer entered the parlour, how he talked, and in desoiibing him, 3he always had difficulty putting one fact into words. - ■ ;>?

“ Somehow,” she always said, “ he made me creep. Hh sat Sght in front of me and he seemed to be there like any other man, but there w.as something or other about him that made him stem unreal,a kind of strange shadow of arichold man I had seen upon thoAvi nue.His voioe.too, sounded kind and up natural ; some thing like an echo of a real voice speaking away off somewhere. I thought at first that he was only absent-minded, but the more I looked at him the more plainly I saw t|iat there was some thing about him I could not explain, and can't now. 