Ella saw but one.

He fancied she, too, would desert him, like the cold unfeeling world.

And then she begged so imploringly of her sister to go to him, and ask him to come, that Mary, loth as she was to do so, finally complied.

She found him in his office, and fortunately alone.

He was looking very pale and haggard, the result of last night's debauch, but Mary did not know of this.