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 comes back and gets to the other side the Allegheny Mountains. I told her to come out my way and I'd show her one!" Then in his enthusiasm he leaned toward her, beaming broad admiration upon her. "I'd certainly like to take you around my city!" he said.

"Such a proposal!" she cried. "Mr. Ogle, you must stay to save me. I might accept!"

But Ogle was already moving away, and did not look back. He made up his mind to stop thinking of her, to banish her entirely from his mind, and, feeling restored to freedom by this resolution, sat down comfortably upon a coiled hawser and wondered why he had not sooner set himself at liberty by so simple an act of will. The sun was bright and under it the whole circle of the sea lay sparkling; balmy airs encompassed him; he was once more his own man. Congratulating himself upon the ease with which he had dispersed the fascination, he began to realize that he had been almost in love with Mme. Momoro. Then his chin sank, his hands clenched, and he groaned half-aloud.

"How can she?" he whispered bitterly. "How can she treat me so!"

At dinner that evening Mrs. Tinker was in great