"How, may I ask, do you know it ?" But with a brazen goddess to deal with--! This personage had to fix him but an instant.

"Because, you dear honest man, you're here.

You wouldn't be if you hated him, for you don't practically condone--!" This time he broke in with his eyes on the child.

"I feel on the contrary, I assure you, that I condone a great deal." "Well, don't boast of your cynicism," she laughed, "till you're sure of all it covers.

Let the right thing for you be," she went on, "that Nanda herself wants it." "Nanda herself ?" He continued to watch little Aggie, who had never yet turned her head.