"Where is Mrs.Daniels ?" he cried, hastily advancing and pulling the bell.

"I must see her at once.
Send the house-keeper here," he ordered as Fanny smiling demurely made her appearance at the door.
"Mrs.Daniels is out," returned the girl, "went out as soon as ever you got up from dinner, sir." "Gone out at this hour ?" "Yes sir; she goes out very often nowadays, sir." Her master frowned.

"Send her to me as soon as she returns," he commanded, and dismissed the girl.
"I don't know what to make of this," he now said in a strange tone, approaching again the touching contents of that open bureau drawer with a look in which longing and doubt seemed in some way to be strangely commingled.

"I cannot explain the presence of these articles in this room; but if you will come below I will see what I can do to make other matters intelligible to you.

Disagreeable as it is for me to take anyone into my confidence, affairs have gone too far for me to hope any longer to preserve secrecy as to my private concerns.".