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The thought of Hyde's probable visit and this way of escaping it hter that had that sohter of the insane and drunken and cruel, worse than the bitterest lamentation He felt a sudden haste to escape hi his hat walked rapidly to his father's office Peter looked up as he entered, and the question in his eyes hardly needed the sio to Boston early in the o over the business with Blume and Otis, and to possess myself of all particulars"

"I have just heard that General Hyde caht Honourable the Earl of Hyde, and his son is, as you know, Lord George Hyde Has this made a difference?"

"It has not Let us count up what is owing to us After all there is a certain good in gold"

"That is the truth I aold can abase, and what iold can find friends"

"I shall count every half-penny after Blume and Otis"

"Be not too strict--too far east is west Youall"

Then the twoover their accounts, and during this tie When he returned hoood," he thought, "I will let sleeping dogs lie Why should I set the about my affairs? I will not do it"--and with this determination in his heart he fell asleep

But Rem's sleep was the sleep of pure htenment and discipline of the oracles that speak in darkness The winged dreae or comfort for him, and he took no counsel from his pillow His sleep was the sleep of tired flesh and blood, and heavy as lead But the waking fro awakened with a blow He leaped to his feet, and the thought of his loss and the sha he had done, assailed him with a brutal force and swiftness He was stunned by the suddenness and the inexorable character of his trouble And he told hiht" He had no fear of Hyde's interference so early in the , and once in Boston all attacks would lose much of their hostile virulence, by the hts, but when a hts, he excuses them And as soon as he ell on the road to Boston, he even began to assulory of his new position, would doubtless be well disposed to let all old affairs drop quietly "and if so," he et 'Yes' where I got 'No'"