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"Down in the Glen with Mrs Meredith Will you be pleased to wait

while I call them?" Esther said, in reply to the rector's inquiries

for Miss Ruthven

"No, I will find theht how iive the letter to Anna in the

presence of her aunt, he slipped it into the book which he bade Esther

take to Miss Ruthven's roo how honest and faithful Esther was, the rector felt that he

could trust her without fear for the safety of his letter, sought the

Glen, where the tell-tale blushes which burned on Anna's cheek at

sight of him more than coreeted him She, too, had detected Anna's eer was presented to her as "Mr Leighton, our

clergyinning of ti hton, and then quietly inspected his _personnel_

There was nothing about Arthur Leighton's appearance hich she

could find fault He was even finer looking than Thornton Hastings,

her _beau ideal_ of adown upon her, the woed to herself

that they were a well-assorted pair, and as across the chasm of twenty

years there came back to her an episode in her life, when, on just