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CARNAC SAYS GOOD-BYE.
Fabian Grier's house was in a fashionable quarter of a fashionable street, the smallest of all built there; but it was happily placed, rather apart from others, at the very end of the distinguished promenade.

Behind it, a little way up the hill, was a Roman Catholic chapel.
The surroundings of the house were rural for a city habitation.

Behind it were commendable trees, from one of which a swing was hung.

In a corner, which seemed to catch the sun, was a bird-cage on a pole, sought by pigeons and doves.