” “I’ve been looking forward to meeting you, Lucy. Taber returning. “It was perhaps my fault. With his chisel so fine, tra la! "There!" cried the boy, leaping from the stool, and drawing back a few paces on the bench to examine his performance,—"that'll do. She will sail, at early dawn to-morrow, for Rotterdam. “This is all rot!” he declared angrily. Only she was conscious of an unfamiliar and wonderful emotion. ‘If ever I met such a pair of lunatics!’ ‘Give me that, Hilary,’ Gerald said at once, ignoring his remark and reaching out for the handkerchief. " "Zounds!" exclaimed Quilt, "did you kill him?" "Not quite," replied Terence, laughing; "but I brought him to his senses. ‘Don’t try to turn it off,’ ordered Miss Froxfield. Purney's hand-writing," said Jack, advancing, "and can at once decide whether this is a forgery or not. Of all crafts,—and it was the only craft his poor father, who, to do him justice, was one of the best workmen that ever handled a saw or drove a nail, could never understand,—of all crafts, I say, to be an honest man is the master-craft. "Here, take this and get the letter and open and read it.