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refreshing sleep of a contented mind. Walter very quickly followed suit. There is an everlasting and non-injurious narcotic.in the knowledge that your banker's balance is all right, and your investments secure.

CHAPTER XXXI.

DOLLY SEES THAT FACE IN HER DREAMS.

ALTHOUGH the weather was fine and sunny in Paris, with pleasant promise of May flowers, it was not until our friends had traveled all night from the gay city, to awake the next morning at Ambruel, that the world began to look green and floral. The trees in the Bois, it is true, had put forth indications of green buds ; but the branches were still bare and brown. Here and there on the banks of the Seine there were villages about which fruit trees were beginning to blossom, and everywhere you felt the coming of the Spring, bright and perfumed. But after a night of travel, Philip woke up in the midst of a landscape backed by the mountains of the Savoy, that looked like fairyland, with tall green poplars, running brooks and clusters of picturesque cottages with overhanging roofs, and in the fields, men and women fixing up poles for the green vines that had begun to need them.

None of Philip's fellow travelers were up. They had a sleeping carriage all to themselves, with a small dining coupe attached. Philip stood upon the platform of the Pullman car in the early morning, and the incidents of the journey from London to Dover went further and further away in the distance. The continuous travel, and the entirely new surroundings, helped on " Old Time " and his hour-glass wonderfully. Philip took out his sketch book and began to make pictorial memoranda of the country through which the train was carrying its sleeping