his wife."

"Yes , I know," she said slowly. "You can keep that foul
thing in your life, but it never shall come into mine."

"Then neither will I. I will stand by my wife."

"That is the end, then?"

She waited, her eyes on his.

He did not speak.

She turned and left him, disappearing slowly in the rain
and mist.



CHAPTER IV

Two days later Mr. Perry met Miss Vance in Canterbury and
told her of the marriage. She hurried back to London.
She could not hide her distress and dismay from the two
girls.

"How did she force him into it? One is almost driven to
believe in hypnotism," she cried.

Lucy Dunbar had no joke to make about it to-day. The
merry little girl was silent, having, she said, a