Others also, who had been brought near to the tragedy, were occupied again, and of these Morris in particular was a fair example of the spirit of the Life-force.

His effort, no doubt, was in a way easier than that made by Mr.Taynton, for to be twenty-two years old and in love should be occupation sufficient.

But he, too, had his bad hours, when the past rose phantom-like about him, and he recalled that evening when his rage had driven him nearly mad with passion against his traducer.

And by an awful coincidence, his madness had been contemporaneous with the slanderer's death.

He must, in fact, have been within a few hundred yards of the place at the time the murder was committed, for he had gone back to Falmer Park that day, with the message that Mr.Taynton would call on the morrow, and had left the place not half an hour before the breaking of the storm.