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His office did not answer, but Wiggins' office bad never been responsive to the telephone, so this was not significant. The more I considered his conduct during the re cital of my visit to the Asolando the more I wondered, and In spite of my wish to Ignore utterly Jewett's revela tions as to Wiggins' summer abroad, t was forced to the conclusion that Jew ett bad not lied. I had known Wig gins long, and this was the first time that I had ever been conscious of any withholding of confidence on his part, and on my own I bad not merely con fided all my hopes and alms,to him, but I had leaned upon him often in my perplexities. There was. Indeed, a kind of boyish compact between ns that we should support each other throngh all difficulties. His reserve hid, I knew, a diffident and sensitive nature, and It was wholly possible that If bis affair with Cecilia Holllster bad not prospered he bad fled to his ranch there to wrestle In seclusion wttb bis disappointment. My mind was busy with such speculations as I sped to ward Katonnh. where 1 found the trap from Hopefleld Manor awaiting me. "It's rattier poor going over the hills; about five miles, sir," said the driver as we set off. This was the first week in October. There was Just zest enough In the air to make a top coat comfortable. The team of blacks spoke well for Miss Hoitlster's stable, and the liveried driver kept them ihoving steadily, but eased the pace as we rose on the fre quent slopes to-tl}e shoulders of the pleasant Westchester hills. Early frosts had already wrought their mira cle in the foliage, and the battle ban ners of winter's vanguard flashed along the horizons. I rejoiced that my business, vexations enough in many ways, yet afforded me so charming an outing as this. Presently we climbed a hill that shouldered Its way welt above its fel lows and came out upon a broad ridge, where we entered at once a noble gateway sot In an old. stone wall and struck off smartly along € fine bit of macadam. The house, the driver in formed me, was a quarter of a mile from the gate. The way led through a wild woodland, in which elms and maples predominated, and before this had grown monotonous we came ab ruptly upon an Italian garden, beyond which rose the bouse. 1 knew It at once for oue of I'epperton'a sound per formances. Pepperton Is easily our best man la domestic Tudor, and the whole setting of Hopeffeld Manor—the sunken garden, the snperb view, the billowing fields and woodlands beyond -all testified to a taste which no igno rant owner had thwarted. The bouse was Tudor, but In no servile sense. It was also Pepperton. I lifted my eyes with immediate professional interest to the chimneypots on the roof. It oc curred to me on tb« Instant that I bad never before been called to retouch any of Pepperton'a work. P-ep knew as mncb. as I about flue construction. I bad an Immense respect for Pep, and as my specializing la chimneys bad been a subject of frequent chaffing be tween us. 1 anticipated wltti a chuckle the pleasure 1 should have later In telling him that at last one of hi* floes bad required my services. My good opinion of Miss Holllster did not diminish aa I stepped within tßt broad hall. Houses have their manner of speech, and Hopefleld Manor spoke to all the senses la ac cents of taste and refinement A serv ant took my bag and us be red me Into a charming library. A fire smoldered lazily In the great flreplace; there was In tbe room the faintest scent of burnt wood, but the smoke rose In the floe In • perfectly mannerly fashion, and on thrusting la my band I felt a good draft of air. 1 Instinctively knelt on the hearth and peered up. bat saw nothing unworkmanliko-Pepper tou wit not a fellow to leave obvious mistake* behind him. Bat possibly that was not one of the recalcitrant fireplace* 1 had bean called to inspect, ami I •—* continuing my en joyment of the beautiful room when 1 became conscious, by rather carious and mixed "processes not wholly of the eye, that a young woman had drawn back the light portiere*-they were -1. , M ril •••I*l. *■ * _JS » A brown. wttn uoruers or pa rot GRAHAM, N. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 3, L 913 The Siege of the Seven Suitors By MtREDITH NICHOLSON • - 1 _T • Cepyrifht, 1911. by Meredith Nkfcalioa orange— auu stood gravely' gazing at me. She held the curtains apart—they made, indeed, a kind Of frame for her— bnt as our eyes met she advanced at once and (poke my name. "You are Mr. Ames. My aunt ex pected you. 1 regret to say that she Is not in the house just now, hut she will doubtless return for tea.. 1 am ber niece. Won't yon Bit down t" _ As she found a sent for herself, I made bold to survey ber with some particularity. She carried her flue height with beautiful dignity. She was a creature of grace, and it was u grace of strengTh, the suppleness nnd ease that mark our later outdoor Amer ican woman. She could do her miles over those hills—l wus sure of that. Her fine olive face, crowned with dark balr, verified the impression. 1 had gathered from Jewett, that she was a woman of chltlvatlon. She had read the poets; Daqje and Petrarch spoke from her eygs. Cecilia was no bad name for her; sße suggested heavenly harmo nies! Xnd as for Jewett's stor.v of Wig gins' infatuation, 1 wa's content. She was talking meanwhile of the day and Its buoyant nlr and of the 'tapestries hung in the woodlands In u voice deep with rare Intimations of viol chords. "It's velry 1 quiet here. It doesn't seem possible that we are so uenr the city. My aunt chose the place with care, and she made no mistake about It. Yes, the house was built b.v Mr. Pepperton, but not for as. My aunt bought it of the estate of the gentle man who built It. This will lie her first winter here." Miss Holllster herself appeared. She greeted me without surprise and much as she might have spoken to any guest in her house. 1 had sometimes been treated ns though 1 were the agent of • decorator's shop, or a delinquent plumber, by the people whom 1 served, but Miss Holllster and her niece estab lished me upon a plane that was wholly social. 1 was made to feel that It was the most natural thing In the world for me to be there, having tea, with no business abend of me but to be agree able. The fact that 1 bad coine to cor rect the distemper of their flues was utterly negligible. I remembered wltb satisfaction that I bad journeyed from town in a new business suit that made the best of my attenuated flgure, and 1 will not deny that 1 felt at ease. Miss Holllster talked briskly as she made tea. "It Is not necessary for you to take tea If you don't care for It, Mr Ames," she said, as 1 rose and handed the Brat cup to Cecilia "If you will touch tbe hell at yopr elbow you may have Ilqnlds of quite another sort." "You are most generous, Miss Hol llster. Tea will suffice for the mo ment. It Is Siting that I should take It here, It having been a weakness for tea as well as curiosity and chance that threw me In yonr way- at the Aso lando." "That absurd—that preposterous hole In the wall!" Bbfe put down her cop and faced me. continuing: "Mr. Ames, 1 will not deny that If it had not been for Uenera.' •ha Advanced at One* and ftpaka My Nam*. Glendeuiilng'a cordial Indorsement of you, and the farther fact that I bad mat your lata fattier, I should not bare Invited you to my bouaa on the ocea «lOD to which you refer. My contempt Cor the Aaolando and the things It stands for la beyond such language as a lady may use before the young. I fan back upon the privilege of my age to bag that you will hereafter give the Asolando a wide berth." 1 laughed at bar earnestness, but on turning toward Miss Cecilia I aaw that she was placidly stirring bar cop. It night be thai one was not expected to mukifnt imnwrmmt In Min Hollli tar's otterancea, and 1 waa anxious to adjuat myself to the proper key In my intercourse, BO matter bow brief It might be. with this remarkable old tody._ 4u uiy embarrassment I rose and of fered tbe bread and butter to Cecillu. who declined It. The austerity of her rejection ruther unnerved me. "I Miss Hollfeter, that I hare no wish to become a Jmbltue of the" place," 1 said. "And yet you will pardon me If I repeat that, but for It, > 1 I should not now be enjoying the hoa- • pltallty of Hopeflcld Manor." • Blie lifted tier bead from her cup and "bowed, but 1 was Immediately lnterost td In the fact that her niece was ipeaklng. ► "I think Aunt Octavla Is hard on thj Asolando," she was saying, "Aunt OctuYta la Interested In the revival of romnne£. and romance without poetry seems to me wholly Impossible." "The n Re Is decadent, and I know no better way of restoring the race to Its ancient vim and energy than by send ing men back to the camp and Held or to sail the. high sens lu new armadas The men of this age have become a lot of sordid shopkeepers, nnd to my moral sense the looting of cities Is far more honorable than the creation of trusts and the manipulation of prices, though I cannot deny that but for my late father's zeal In destroying his competi tors In the baby buggy business we | might not now tie enjoying the dell cate fragrance of caravan tea." "I assure you. Mr. Ames." said Cer cilia, "that Jhe Asolando Is *a very harmless place, and. that as a matter of fact Its alms are wholly consonant | with those of Aunt OctavJa. I myself served there for a time, ftnd tliose were among the most delightful days of my life. There are times-when 1 I miss the Asolando." "Mr. Auies." begun** Miss Octavla j presently In her crisp, direct fashion, which had the effect of leading me In my anxiety to appear ready with an swers to take a nattering view of my own courage and resourcefulness, "Mr. j Ames, are you equal to the feat of , swimming a moat.under a shattering Are from the castles" "X have every reason to think I am. Miss nolllster.'' I replied modestly. * j "And If a white hand waved to you from the grilled window of the lonely tower, would you ride on Indifferently or pause and thunder at the gate?" "White hands have never wared to me. save occasionally when 1 have gone a-rldlng In the .Sixth nvenue ele vated, but It is my honest belief that my sword would promptly leave Its scabliard If the hand ever waved from the Ivied tower." My friends at the Hare and Tortoise would have heard this avowal with some' surprise, fur no man's life had ever been tauier than mine. I am by nature timid, and fall but a little short of being afraid of the dark. Prayers for dell vera in e from battle, murder and sudden death cannot lie too strong ly expressed for me. My answer had, however, pleased Miss Octavla, and she clapped her bauds with pleasure. "Cecilia," she cried, "something told me that afternoon at the Asolando that my belief in the iNitentlal seven was not ill placed, and now you see that In ■ Introducing myself to Mr. Ames at the seventh table from the door. In the seventh shop from Fifth aveuue, 1 was led to a meeting with a gentleman I 1 bad been predestined to know." Aa we talked further a servant ap peared and laid fresh logs across the still smoldering Are. This I thought would suggest to Miss Holllster the professional character of my visit, but the Ore kindled readily, the smoke rose freely In the flue, and Miss minister paid no attention to It. The merits of chain armor. 1 think it was,.that held us for half an hour, Cecilia and I lis- j teiilng with re*|M*ct to what, in my ig norance,, seemed a remarkable fund ol knowledge on this recondite subject. "We. dine jit 7, Mr. Ames, and you may ampse yimrstflf as yon like until that hour. Ceclllaiyon may order din ner In the gun room ,tonlght.".«» "Certainly, Aunt Octavla." Once motv I glanced nt the girl. ho|t- Ing flint aome iJliumer In Iter eye* would net me rl«l»t mid establish a com mon midendnndliig iiml sympathy he tween im. litit xlit* was moving oul of the room at her mint's Hide. The man wbo bad tended the lira met m« lu the half and, conducting me to my room, suggested various offices thnt lie WIIH ready to*|>erforin for my comfort. The 'louse fined Mouth, nud my window*, midway of the east wing, ll(forded a line view of the hill*. The room wn* >rge enough for a chamber of state, aud It* furniture wa* massive. A fuur poster Invited lu luxurious rcpo-e; half I dozen etchings hy famous artists- I'arrMh nud Vuu Ellen among .tlieni tnng upon Ihp wnllg. My I NIK hail l>peu opened mid my tbltig* put out. *> ibut, iholt- being (noli' (bail mi Imur In pa** before I need dreiiH for dinner. I went Mow mid explored the garden mid wandered off along » Wißdlßji pHfV Tfial #tof» with charming fnrtlvene** toward n venerable ore hard nf gnarled tipple tree*, I'rom the tiH'Hit tbux gained I looked down nfViin Ihe li'iii'e. lind caught n gl!m|>«r iieyoiMl It of one of tbe eh* In of on which the treat- j •n ma glinted goldenly. Thus neeing the bonne (ton « new angle lwaa Ira- Itrexied nal bail not been ut flrat by It* *ize. It w** a huge ealabMabmeat. nod I thought with envy of I'epperton, to whom mi'b n tuple eommlmlon* were not rare. I'epperton, I re.-ailed a little bitterly, bad arrived, wltei««* I, wbo bud enjoyed exactly Id* own training for the arcbltei-t'a prufe*«lon. had foil ed nt it and been obliged to turn my baud to tbe doctoring of chimney*, llut a* I reflected upon tbe odd fiir t-um*tance*'of my being there my *plr- It* ru*e. Ml** Hollbrter wa* beyond question a lingular pernon, but ber whim* were amusing. I felt that *be [ wa* lesa cryptic than ber nelce, and i tbe thought of Cecilia drove me back upon Jewett'a atory of Wlgglna' Inter- I e*t in that quarter. I resolved to write to Wlggin* when I got back to town tile nest day and abnae him roundly 1 for running off without eo much aa good by. That, most emphatically, wa* MX Ilk* dear old Wlggin*. CHAPTER IV. I Fall Into a Brisr Patch. 11l All been sitting on a atone wall watching the shadows lengthen, i'rftse now and followed the wall toward a highway along wblcb wagons *M nu «ee* atonal motorcar iu««» i tnrini ny. reverie. The taping pasture was rough ana ijp (]i:eutly sent me nlong at a trot. The wall that marked tbe boundary at tho lymdsldo was bidden by a tangle of ranplierry bushes, Hud my foot, turn -1 lug on a atone concealed In the wild grouses, Utell clumsily and rolled a , , dozen yards Into a tangle of the berry bushes. Ah I picked myself up I beard voices In tbe roud, but abould have thought nothing of it had 1 not seen through a break in the vines and al most within reach of my hand Cecilia Uolllster talking earnestly to some one not yit disclosed. She was butless, but bad dung a golf cape over her shoulders. The scarlet lining of the bood turned up alxxit her ueck made an effective setting for her noble head. "Oh. I can't tell you! 1 can't help you! 1 mustn't oven apiiear to give you any advantage. 1 went Into It with my eyes open, and I'm In honor bound not to tell you anything. Yon have said nothing—nothing, remember that. There Is absolutely nothing be tween us." « "But 1 must say everything. 1 re fuse to lie blinded by those abfurd re strictions. whatever they are. It's not fair. It's inviting me into a game where tlie curds are not all on tbe ta ble. I've come to make an end of It!" My hands had suffered by contnct with the briars.'and I bad-been mlnls but I fell bnok upon the slope in my , j astonishment at this colloquy. Cecilia Ilollister I had seen plainly enough, though the uian> back had beon to ward uie. but anywhere on eat-th 1 should have known Wiggins' voice. I protest tlint It Is not my wny to lye come un 'eavcmlropiwr voluntarily, but tQ disclose myself now was Impossible. If it bad not lioen Wiggins—but Wig ' gins would never liuve understood or forgiven, nor could I have explained plausibly to Cecilia Holllster that 1 had not followed her from the bouse , to spy upon her. I should have mad.? the milHjjrf-trrrlfivadlnh 111 111 j itttejufiwd to effect an exit by crenph*, out through, the windrow of crisp ! leaves in which 1 lay, and to turn back Hiid ascend the sloiie the wuy I had come would have lieen to advertise my presence to the figures In tbe road. \ "You mull 90—pltaitl" There neemed uotlilnir for me but to Keep still mid hope that tlilx dlnciii • lon MWPM CeHllii Ilolll*ler nnil •Inrtley WIRBIIIII would not lie eontln ied wlthlti earxhot. To my reliel tlioy moved a trifle further on. but I (till henrd their voice*. "I cannot IMen to .von. Now tlint I'm committed I cannot honorably i countenance you at all. and I rati ex plain nothing. I cnine here to meet you only to tell you till*. You mu«t go —please! And do not attempt to aee me In thl* way again." I wa* grateful that Wiggins' voice Mank so low In Ills reply that I did not 'iear It, hut I knew that he was plead '••g hard. Then a motor daubed by, ind when the whir of Its passing hnd eased the voices were Inaudible. But : a moment later I heard a light, quick •itep beyond the wall, and Cecilia pass f ill hurriedly, her face turned toward the house. The cape was drawn tight ' If About ber shoulders, and she walk j rd with-her bead bowel j 1 Ureal bed n sigh of relief, and whim | I felt wife from dele -lion, climbed tbe llOpO. J' roUHlim on the r«*t to survey the landscape, I saw a man, wearing a der by UiiL uud u Uxtit topcoat, loanlne agulust n feme that inclosed a pasture As I Kill nerd In his direction lie moved awuy hastily toward the rond IK-IIIW. The feeling of being watched in not agreeable, and I could uot account for blw. AN lie passed oat of sight still | another muu appeared, emerging from I a atrip of woodland fart Iter on. Keen . through the evening bake 1 should, have ' aald that be waa a gentleman. The , two men apparently bore too relation to ,j each other, though tliejr were walking i In the aaiue direction, bound, I Judged, ij for the highway below. -1 bad au mi ij comfortable feeling that Uiey bad liotb • been olmertlug me, though for what purpose I could not Imagine. Then ' on «« more. Jiwt 1 waa.about to en , ter tbe Italian garden from ■ fallow ■ field tbat bung slightly above it, a third man ap;«ared an mysteriously I M tliough he bad sprung from the ' ground, and rau at a sharp dog trot i along the feme, bended, like tbe otto- I er», for the road, lu tbe third Instance ; the stranger undoubtedly took pains to , bide bia face, but be. too, waa well > dreamed and wore a topcoat and ■ fe i dora bat of current style. ' | I did not know wtiy these gentlemen ' were ranging the nelgbhorbood or what i object tbey Imd In view, but tfaelr aev t-ral appearawe* bad interested me, and 1 went ou Into tbe bouse well aat iflcd that events of an nnosnal char acter were likely to mark my visit to title borne of Miss Oetavla ilollUter. Cecilia sst reading alone when 1 en tered tbe library abortly before tbe dln er hour. Hhe put down ber book and re fall Into fltfoi talk. "I took a walk after tea, 1 always reel tbat aunscta are best seen from tbe fields. Yon can'r >«•■♦« «»" «*>» m 5;" i ' ~ mm " ?* •. .j jnvnie irom wtnoows," sue negan. She seemed preoccupied. Wiggins was In her recollection of tbe glowing laudscnpe—l wan confident of this, and poor Wlgglus was even now wander ing these bill*, no doubt, brooding upon his troubles under clear October stars. Dinner was'iuimmnced tbe moment Miss Holllster entered, aud 1 waited out between them. Miss Octavla iffil lister was a .surprising person, hut In nothing was. mlu> so delightfully way ward as In the gowns she wore. My Ignoriinre of stt'h matters is iKimeas ' urnlile. but 1 filler that she designed her own r. Kiieiit nnd hud her Ideas were thereupon carried out by a tailor of skill. At the Asolamln, uud when we had met iit teu In ber own house, she had worn tbe severest of tailored gowns, with, short skirt and a coat Into wh ,si> iKH'kats she was fond of thrustlin; Jier hands. Tonight tbe ma terial was lavender silk trimmed in white, lan tbe shirt hud not lengthened, aud over a while silk waist Bbe wore a kind of cutaway cut that matched the skirt. An aigre't in her lovely white luilr contributed a piquant note to the whole Impression. As we pass ed down tli7> hnll she talked with great nnliuatloil of 'l'lie Hague tribunal, just theu holding a prominent place In tbe newspapers for some reason ihat has escaped me. "The whole thing is absurd, perfect ly Absurd. 1 kliow of nothing that would contribute more to human enjoy ment than n real war betwoen Cler niauy and Knglnud. The Hague idea In pure Hcntlmentiillsm-If sentlmeutal feiui can ever be said to lie pure. I will go further and say that 1 consider it positively Immoral." » She bud ordered dluner In the gun room, lint I thought this merely a turn of her liiiuh r. am 1 was taken nback when she let! the way Into a low, heavi ly raftered rooiu. wliere electric sconces of an odd type were thrust at Irregular IntervuiM along the walla, which were otherwise hung with anna of many jwirtK In orderly combinations. They wKoiiot the litter of antique shops, I MW msuliiiHty glance, hut rifle* and guns of tlftMatest patterns, and bealde the sldehourd stood a gun rack and a cabinet wlili h I assumed contained still oth#r and perhaps deadlier weapon*. But for the presence of Minn Cecilia, who win essentially typical of our century American woman, I think I Julgbt readily have yielded to the Illusion .that I waa the gueat of aome eccentric chatelaine who had In vited me tij dine with her In a bastion of her Yortreaa liefure ordering me to aome chamber of horror* for execu tion. No reference wax made to the char acter of the room. I felt, lu fact, that Cecilia rather pleaded with her eye* that I Nhoiild make no reference to It And Ml** tlolllNler remarked quite casually a* though In comment upon my thought*: "Consistency haw hurled It* thou sand* and habit It* ten* of thuu*anil*. We should live. Mr. Antes, for the change* and chalices of this troubled life. Between an opera box and a villa at Newport many of my beat friend* have perished." Then with startling abruptness Mlic put down her fork and, I lending her wonderfully illryct gaze u|>on uie, ask ed a question that caused me to stran gle on n hit of aspurngus. "I Imagine. Mr. Ames, that you are a memlier of some of the better clulix In town. If by any chance you lielong to the flare and Tortoise-tho name of which ha* always pleased me-do you ay any chalice happen to enjoy the ac quaintance of Hartley Wlggln*?" Cecilia lifted licr licrtl. .1 saw that who had lieen ll* startled In I, it crossed my ntlnil tlmt n denial of any acquaintance with Wlualrm uiiiiht Ix'xt serve 1) lin lit the circumstance*. Hut I am not, I lupe. without n *Miso of I lis HIP. nml I responded |innu|itly: "VM. 1 know lilui well. \V« nr old friend*. I.alwayi see n Rood deal ol him during the winter. Ill* summer* are speut uitually on tilft ranch lu the west. We dined together two day* ago at the Hare and Tortoise, Juat be fore be left for t'lu went." "You will iMiriloii me If 1 say that It la wholly to his credit that be haa for sworn the professions and Identified himself with the honorable calling of the husbandman." "We tuet Mr. Wiggins while travel ing abroad last summer," Interposed Cecilia, meeting my eyes quite frankly. "Met him! ind you say met hlui, Cecilia? On the contrary, we found him waiting for ua at the dock the morning we sailed," corrected Miss Ilolllater, "and we never lost' blm a day In three months of rapid travel. I bad never met him liefore, but 1 can not deny that lie made himself exceed ingly agreeable. If. as I suspected, he bad deliberately planned to travel oti the same steamer with my two niece*. I have only praise for his coiMluct, for in these days. Mr. Ames, It warms my heart to flud young men *howlng aomethliig of the old chlvalric ardor lu their affairs of the heart." "I'm sure Mr. Wiggins made himself rtry agreeable," remarked Cecilia col oriessiy. "Kor myself," retorted' Mlis. Mollis ter, "I should apeak even more strong I/. He repeatedly serred us with tact and delicacy. 1 bad formed ao high an opinion of Mr. Wiggins tliat I learn ed with slncerest regret ibat bis an cestors were Tories ami took no pari In the strategic for American Indefiend erne. There are times when 1 serious ly question the wisdom of tbe colonists In breaking with tbe mother country, bat certainly no man of character In that day could have hesitated as (o bis proper course." Then, as though by Intention. Miss Holllster dropped npon tbe smooth cur rent of our talk a sentence that drove tbe color from Cecilia's face "Hezeklali and Mr. Wiggins were tbe best of friends." was Ml»» Holllater's remark. Cecilia's eyea were on her plate, but faer annt went on In ber blithest fash ion: "You may not know Ibat Heseklab la another niece. OHlla'e sister. She was named, at tny suggestion, for my father, there being no ami In tbe fam ily. and I tru«t tbat ao unnaiial a name In a young girl does not strike you as Indefensible." "On the contrary. It seems to me wbolly refreshing anil delightful. As I recall the Hunday school of my youth. Heaeklnli wns a monarch of great au thority wh.w. ■f.im.Mrftv «nwatd Sen- nncherlh was justified in the fullest degree. The very name bristles with apears and is mimical with the trum pets of Israel. Nothing wcfuld make me happier than to meet the. young lady who hears this illustrious name." "As to the your knowledge of ancient history, Mr. Ames," began Miss .Hol lister as she helped herself to tbe cheese-sweets. I noted, were not In cluded in the very ample meal 1 had enjoyed—Ht Is clear thnf yon were well taught in your youth. I am not surprised, however, for I should have expecled nothing less of a son of the lnte lieneral Ames of Hartford. As to meeting my niece lle/.elilah. I fear that that Is at present Impossible. While Cecilia remains with me Her.ekinli's duty Is to her father, aud. 1 must say In ajl kindness that Ilezeklub's ways, like those of Providence niiil the cus tom house, are beyond my feeble un derstanding, In a word. Mr, Ames, Heseklah Is different." "Ileneklah." added Cecilia, with feeling. "Is n dear." "I'leuse don't bring sentlraentallsm to the table."' cried Miss Holllster. "Mr. Wiggins Olfee Informed nli> in a moment of forgetfillness— it was at Koiitalneldenti. I rememlier, when Hezeklah persisted in reminding a one armed French colonel who was hang ing about tint w? named cities in America for Bhunstek—lt was there at the inn that .Mr. Wiggins contlded to me Ids belief that Hezeklah hears a strong resemblance t> the common or domestic peaAi. As a single |>eacb at that place was charged In the hill at 10 francs, the remark was ill timed, to say the leust. But Mr. Wiggins was so contrite when I rebuked him that 1 allowed him to pay for cur luncheon no small matter, Indeei', far Ilexe klah's appetite is nothing If not ro bust." / ; Mian Ilolllster gave ko ninny turn* to the couvermitlou that i could reach no conclusion us to lier foelli k toward Wiggins or IlezrUliih llolllster, liud, a* for Cecilia, I wan unable to determine whether she w s as a prlxoner i.t Hope lleld Manor or the willing ainf 'levoted companion of tier aunt. In thin bewildered Htate of_ nitud, while we lingered over our coffe*», tbt servant appeared with a curd for each of the ladiea. 1 huw Cecilia start a* ■be read the name. "Mr. Wiggins'! How remarkable that he xhould have appeared Just an we were speaking of him!" wild Miss Mil liliter. "Be mire the gentleman la com fortable In ttie Ittirarv, James. We shall be In at once. 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