The Lady Paramount

ement," he reflected, as he woke next morning. "She said it w

heep were there, the trees, the birds, the dewy swards, the sunshine and the shadows: but-though, at each new turni

your habit," bitterly he r

day he roamed the park, and, as the day dragged on, became a deeply deje

and three minutes after-

'clock he took

as design. Why is man endowed with free-will? I don't care how it may look, nor

reckoned without th

ir," announced that p

"There's nothing left for me to do but to go for a thundering lon

his thought, he set forwards, with rapid, dogged steps. He h

se-please!"