Mrs. Harriet Lewis
  423--A Woman's Way                By Capt. Frederick Whittaker
  424--A Splendid Man                 By Effie Adelaide Rowlands
  425--A College Widow                          By Frank H. Howe
  427--A Wizard of the Moors             By St. George Rathborne
  428--A Tramp's Daughter                   yawing of the gulls and
the heavy boom of the tide as it went out, for the sea was very seldom
calm at Portmaris, and in the least windy of days there was generally a
ground-swell on.

Leslie sat and worked, and thought, thought mostly of Mr. Ralph
Duncombe, her persistent suitor; but once or twice the remembrance of
the deformed <DW36> who had come to lodge at Marine Villa crossed her
mind, and she was thinking of him pityingly when the sound of footsteps
crunching firmly and uncompromisingly over the pebbles made her start,
and caused the terrier to leap up with the fury of its kind.

Leslie's brows came together as she looked up.

A middle-sized young man, with broad shoulders and a rather clumsy but
steady gait, was coming down the beach. He was not a good-looking