Pierre, the butler, brought in coffee and they talked more quietly of
other subjects.




CHAPTER IV.

THE MANUSCRIPT.

"When yellow-locked and crystal-eyed,
I dreamed green woods among
* * * * *
O, then the earth was young"

--ISABELLA VALANCEY CRAWFORD.


When Chrysler went up to his bedchamber he found the following on a
table between two candles:--

BOOK OF ENTHUSIASMS.

_Narrative of Chamilly d'Argentenaye Haviland_.

At the Friars' School at Dormillière, racing with gleeful playmates
around the shady playground, or glibly reciting frequent "Paters" and
"Ave Marias," other ideas of life scarce ever entered my head; till one
day my father spoke, out of his calm silence, to my grandmother; and