CHAPTER LXIV.—(Continued.)

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CHAPTER LXlV.—(Continued.)

She know that Lady Lpsafd. in her mild way. wonld dl"til thia information thron.cn thp house, and so all trouble would bo savnd While the two cattlemen whom ah* had left; tog°ther stood lnokiny at paoh other. 11 It is a aorry ca>>e," said the earl — " a corry ending to »U the bright and pleanant hope* that your mother had formed ftrr yoa. My boy, how oonld yon mistake so greatly ? Yoa have cut; yonrcGlf oft from aa more, almost, than if you were dead." M I know ft," he replied ; " and looking back, I tell you quite honestly that I cannot think how I did it. It was a piaco of boyish, Quixotio folly. I never thought of the consaqutnees. 1 never thought of what woald happen. I seemed to remstnber nothing but the fact that I had persuaded the girl to go out, and that through me, she waa at that hour of night without home or shelter." " Bit there vrf re a hundred other ways and mearia 1 " cried the earl. " None of them occurred to me," paid Lord Carsdale. " I do not exouso my del fin tha least ; I havp not one word to saty. You are very angry, father?" " Tea ; lam more diaappointpfl than anprry. I thought bo mweh of you ; I had built perhaps extravagant hopes over you, for ' love yon." Lord Candalp Mgbed deeply. " Shall we part in anger, futnpr ? " he no!:*?. " We have n»-ver bad an unkind word — will you not be a little merciful to me now?" " I oannot," paid tbc earl, with a low moan, ai of sudden pain—" I cannot, for you have destroyed my life I " And those ware tpp laqt words that pflgaed between thenj f >r rn'iny yeura.