Miss McDonald

appeared to disadvantage. Both had made a great mistake; Guy in marrying a child whose mind was

received Guy's gift of the phaeton and ponies, found her at the little cottage in Indianapolis, where she at once r

cture to contemplate, and Mr. McDonald's face was cloudy and thoughtful for many days until a letter from Tom turned his thoughts into a new channel and sent him with fresh avidity to certain points of law with which he had of late years been familiar. If there was one part of his profession in which he excelled more than another it was in the divorce cases which had made Indiana so notorious. Squire McDonald,

ad never been able to mold or manage Guy. But everything pertaining to Tom must be kept carefully out of sight, for the man knew his daughter would never lend herself to such a diabolical scheme as that which he was revolving, and which he at once put in progress, managing so adroitly that before Daisy was at all aware of what she was doing, she found herself the

Guy was working hard to retrieve in some way his lost fortune, and to fit up a pleasant home for the childish wife who was drifting away from him.

decided upon a visit of a few days to the West, and apprised her of his intention, asking if she would be glad to see him. He received in reply a telegram from Mr. McDonald telling him to defer his journey, as Daisy was visiting some friends and would be absent for an indefinite length of time. There was but one more letter from her and that was dated at Vincen

ister Fan, set himself to the pleasant task of fitting it up for Daisy. There was a blue room with a bay window just as there had been in Elmwood, only it was not so pretentious and large. But it was very pleasant and had a door opening out upon what Guy meant should be a flower garden in the summer, and

ome then," he said to Fan; "and I want her to b

h Miss Thornton the two were a great deal together, and it thus came about that J

n reading together for an hour or more in the room they both thought so pleasant. "I like Dai

isy's marvelous beauty and winning ways, and hoped Julia w

them so much that there insensibly crept into his heart a wish that Dais

Julia here a great deal next summer, and with two such women f

rt beat high with joyful anticipation as he thought just how she would look when she came to him, shyly and coyly, as she always did, with that droop in her eyelids and that pink flush in her cheeks. He would chide her a little a

e morning early in May, and which, when at last it was opened, shut in a very different man from th