She thinks it best, under these circumstances, that we should not again meet, and I shall therefore have left Fellside before you receive this letter.
'With all good wishes, very faithfully yours, 'LESBIA HASELDEN.' 'Very faithfully mine--faithful to her false training, to the worldly mind that rules her; faithful to the gods of this world--Belial and Mammon, and the Moloch Fashion.

Poor cowardly soul! She loves me, and owns as much, yet weakly flies from me, afraid to trust the strong arm and the brave heart of the man who loves her, preferring the glittering shams of the world to the reality of true and honest love.

Well, child, I have weighed you in the balance and found you wanting.

Would to God it had been otherwise! If you had been brave and bold for love's sake, where is that pure and perfect chrysolite for which I would have bartered you ?' He flung himself into a chair, and sat with his head bowed upon his folded arms, and his eyes not innocent of tears.

What would he not have given to find truth and courage and scorn of the world's wealth in that heart which he had tried to win.