A MARRIAGE AND AFTER Stella did not appear at dinner that night, or at breakfast next day.

In the course of the morning, growing impatient, for he had explanations to make, Morris sent her a note worded thus: "Can I see you ?--M.

M." to which came the following answer: "Not to-day.

Meet me to-morrow at the Dead Church at three o'clock.
-- Stella." It was the only letter that he ever received from her.
That afternoon, December 23, Mr.Fregelius and his daughter moved to the Rectory in a fly that had been especially prepared to convey the invalid without shaking him.

Morris did not witness their departure, as the Colonel, either by accident or design, had arranged to go with him on this day to inspect the new buildings which had been erected on the Abbey Farm.