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"I don't like you going tonight"

"Why not tonight?"

"So may be said which will terribly injure me"

"My mother is not vindictive," said Clyo," Eustacia repeated in a low tone "If you agree not to go tonight I proo by myself to her house tomorrow, and make it up with her, and wait till you fetch me"

"Why do you want to do that at this particular time, when at every previous time that I have proposed it you have refused?"

"I cannot explain further than that I should like to see her alone before you go," she answered, with an i at hiuine temperament than upon such as herself

"Well, it is very odd that just when I had decided to go o If I wait for you to go tomorrow another day will be lost; and I know I shall be unable to rest another night without having been I want to get this settled, and will You must visit her afterwards--it will be all the same"

"I could even go with you now?"

"You could scarcely walk there and back without a longer rest than I shall take No, not tonight, Eustacia"

"Let it be as you say, then," she replied in the quiet way of one who, though willing to ward off evil consequences by a ht sooner than wrestle hard to direct theuor stole over Eustacia for the remainder of the afternoon, which her husband attributed to the heat of the weather

In the evening he set out on the journey Although the heat of summer was yet intense the days had considerably shortened, and before he had advanced a reens had raduation, and broken only by touches of white where the little heaps of clean quartz sand showed the entrance to a rabbit burrow, or where the white flints of a footpath lay like a thread over the slopes In alrew here and there a nighthawk revealed his presence by whirring like the clack of a , flapping his wings, wheeling round the bush, alighting, and after a silent interval of listening beginning to whirr again At each brushing of Clyh to catch upon their dusty wings the ht from the west, which now shone across the depressions and levels of the ground without falling thereon to light them up