CHAPTER XIII.
I saw Mrs.Montgomery a few days afterwards, and inquired if she had seen the young associate of Judge Bigelow.

She replied in the affirmative.
"How does he impress you ?" I asked.
"Favorably, upon the whole; though," she added with one of her meaning smiles, "I can't help thinking all the time about the cool, calculating, resolute way in which he went about disentangling himself from an unfortunate love affair.

I look at his calm face, over which you rarely see a ripple of feeling go, and ask myself, sometimes, if a heart really beats within his bosom." "There does; a true, large, manly heart, full of deep feeling; you may be sure of this, madam," I answered, with some warmth.
"I will not gainsay your words, Doctor.

I trust for his sake that it may be so." "Leaving out the heart matter, and regarding him only as to his fitness for the work in hand, you are favorably impressed ?" "Quite so.

I find him quick of apprehension, intelligent, and of sufficient gravity of deportment to ensure a respectful attention wherever he may go.