White Fire

t Queen's Hall was the most tempestuou

soul out of its sanctuary. She was thankful to get home i

he locked herself in, and paced the

ens of white-piled clouds, and the white-piled clouds were all rosy-tipped, because the thoughts th

e great big soul of him! Was

ve worked out his redemption in secret! But he could not, because he was a true m

the depths till she had had difficulty in sitting still. It had seemed to her as though he lost sight of all those straining thousands and spoke only to her-as though they were all nothing, and she

prang up in her heart a great golden-glowing purpose-a purpose that trapped her breath and set her gasping when first it peeped out, but

An incredible thing

eed, for shameless meant without sense of sha

doubt, but not without precedent, and

and grew, stronger and stronger, and ev

ly flashed out before her on the darkness of the night. It was limned in

pled brow, and eyes that shone, it came home to her, like a revel

purposeful face. It was done in a moment-a couple of lines. But a single word has changed the des

it lay on the table. And then, like one whose ships are burned, or whose golden bridge is built, she altered the indicator outside her door, so that her maid would call her at seven, and went to bed. Once, before she got to sleep, she smiled to herself and almos

the table by her bedside all night, with these precise directions: "Tell William"-the groom-"to ride

ick walk in Kensington Gardens. At breakfast

lour you've got! What

in dew and early

pears to me that that is a very great man, Jean. If he lives he will do very nobl

ed Kenneth Blair with Aunt Jannet Harve

declined to go out. Aunt Jannet Harvey expressed the opinion that such early rising did not suit her, and Jean confirmed her

urned, having executed his mission in full; an

the brougham in the evening. Mary would please ask Mrs. Harvey if she wished