"How much over and above a fair percentage did you get ?" "About five dollars." "Good, again! You're a trump, Edward." If Edward Claire was relieved to find that no suspicion had been awakened in the thoughts of Jasper, he did not feel very strongly flattered by his approving words.

The truth was, at the very moment he was relating what he had done, there came into his mind, with a most startling distinctness, the dream of his wife, and the painful feelings it had occasioned.
"What folly! What madness! Whither am I going ?" These were his thoughts now, born of a quick revulsion of feeling.
"It is your dinner-time, Edward.

Get back as soon as possible.

I want to be home a little earlier than usual to-day." Thus spoke Mr.Jasper; and the young man, taking up his hat, left the store.

He had never felt so strangely in his life.