Be at the mill at eleven o'clock." She held out her skeleton hand, and Dyce took it respectfully.

Then Constance and he withdrew.
"This, as you see, is the library," said his companion, when they had passed into the adjoining room.

"The books were mostly collected by Sir Spencer Ogram, father of the late baronet; he bought Rivenoak, and laid out the grounds.

That is his portrait--the painter has been forgotten." Dyce let his eyes wander, but paid Tittle attention to what he saw.

His guide was speaking in a dry, uninterested voice, she, too, seeming to have her thoughts elsewhere.