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 five years that she has been under our roof, I doubt if a single day has gone by without her mentioning him to me. If you marry her to anyone else, I promise you that her husband will not be a happy man."

"Dear me, dear me," thought the lawyer, "this is the green sickness of a romantic maid, a case calling for medicine. But the first medicine, it seems to me, is to find the mysterious Rukmini Kumar."

Accordingly the good man set to work to find the generous stranger. He made personal enquiries himself. He set his friends to work to search on his behalf. He wrote innumerable letters to all his many clients all over the country. He inserted an advertisement in all the newspapers. The advertisement was thus worded:

'Will Babu Rukmini Kumar Ray kindly arrange for an interview with the undersigned on a matter of much importance? The undersigned begs to assure him that the result is likely to be to his advantage.'

But all these energetic measures were of no