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And here I ot out of the house, all through breakfast at the hotel, and for a quarter of an hour after it, M Charnot treated -to" that I had experienced since my earliest youth He ended with these words: "If you have not , Monsieur, I withdraw my consent, and we shall return to Paris"

I strove in vain to shake his decision Jeannetrack

"Very well," I said to her, "I leave the matter in your hands"

"And I leave it in the hands of God," she answered "Be a man If trouble awaits us, hope will at any rate steal us a happy hour or two"

We were just then in front of the gardens of the Archbishop's palace, so M Charnot walked in The current of his reflections was soon changed by the freshness of the air, the groups of children playing around their ically and with reference to the racial divisions of ancient Gaul--by the beauty of the landscape--its foreground of flowers, the Place St Michel beyond, and further yet, above the barrack-roofs, the line of poplars lining the Auron He ceased to be a father-in-law, and beca the groups of strollers, and the h often envious, sounded none the less sweetly in my ears for that I hoped to ardens, we had to visit the Place Seraucourt, the Cours Chanzy, the cathedral, Saint-Pierrele-Guillard, and the house of Jacques-Coeur It was six o'clock by the ti for us in the small and badly furnished entrance--hall It was addressed to Madenized at once the ornate hand of M Mouillard, and grehite as the envelope

M Charnot cried, excitedly: "Read it, Jeanne Read it, can't you!"

Jeanne alone of us three kept a brave face

She read: "MY DEAR CHILD: "I treated you perhaps with undue fa, at a moment when I was not quite ained my senses, I do not withdraw the expressions of which I irl