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Father Murray called at the hotel two days later and inquired for Mr Griffin Mark was in his rooan, "that you had to co happen But I thought it best not to break in upon you after--" Mark stopped, deeply chagrined at having almost touched what must be a painful subject to the priest "I--I--"

But Father Murray sently

"Don't, please, Mark I am quite reconciled to that now A few hours withto know its comforts by heart, like that one I inflicted on you the other day Here's my latest pet: 'What can beon earth?'"

"Fine--but a certain pagan was before your enes who, asked by Alexander the Great to name a favor the emperor could bestow upon hiht? Surely he had all the philosophy of your quotation?"

"He had," sion which includes the best of philosophy, so our à Keue one into self-regulation; but religion is better, because it first secures the virtue and then makes you happy in it 'Unless a s created, he cannot freely attend to the things divine' It is the attending to things divine that really iven for my failure to call, for I left you free for the hed "You are quite aexcuses, iven, so far as I alected"

"That is true, Father Won't you let me ith you? I want to speak about athe main street of Sihasset and out toward the Bluff Road Mark was silent for a long ti how he could approach the subject When he spoke he went directly to the point: "Father, you know that I love Miss Atheson?"

"Yes"

"You approve?"

"Decidedly"

"But I am not of her faith"

"You are Lax yousatisfied with present conditions I am frank, my dear Mark"

"And you would trust me?"

"Absolutely"

"At first, I could not quite see why I fell in love with her so soon, after having escaped the pleasant infliction for so long a ti met me before?"