I conclude it had been used for our journey hither; but it is gone, and I can not come to my dearest father.

My husband is very ill, and my little baby only three weeks old.

Tell my father this, and send me news of him soon.

Help me, for I am almost beside myself with misery! "Yours gratefully, "Helen Bruce "-- -- Street, Edinburg." Edinburg! Then she was come home! The earl had opened and read the letter with his secretary sitting by him.

Yet, dull and not prone to notice things as the old man was, he was struck by an unusual tone of something very like exultation in his master's voice as he said, "Mr.Mearns, call Malcolm to me; I must start for Edinburg immediately." In the interval Lord Cairnforth thought rapidly over what was best to be done.