EXPOSTULATION The next morning Ludwell Cary rose early, ordered his horse, and opened the door of his brother's room.

"Fair," he said, as the younger Cary sat up in bed, with a nightcap wonderfully askew upon his handsome head, "I am off for Greenwood.

Make my excuses, will you, to Colonel Churchill and the ladies?
I will not be back till supper-time." He turned to leave the room.

"And Fair--if you have anything to say to Miss Dandridge, this is the shepherd's hour.

We go home to-morrow." "What the Devil ?"--began the younger Cary.
"No, not the Devil," said the other, with a twist of the lip half humorous, half piteous.