A LETTER FROM PARIS For the first year Jane watched Archie's growth and development with the care of a self-appointed nurse temporarily doing her duty by her charge.

Later on, as the fact became burned into her mind that Lucy would never willingly return to Warehold, she clung to him with that absorbing love and devotion which an unmarried woman often lavishes upon a child not her own.

In his innocent eyes she saw the fulfilment of her promise to her father.

He would grow to be a man of courage and strength, the stain upon his birth forgotten, doing honor to himself, to her, and to the name he bore.

In him, too, she sought refuge from that other sorrow which was often greater than she could bear--the loss of the closer companionship of Doctor John--a companionship which only a wife's place could gain for her.