As I have robbed you of your mistress, so will I win her back for you.

I swear it.

And when that is done, when thus every harm I have caused you is repaired, then, Jocelyn, perhaps you will come to look with less repugnance upon your father, and to feel less resentment towards him." "You promise much, sir," quoth the boy, with an illrepressed sneer.

"How will you accomplish it ?" Hogan grunted audibly.

Crispin drew himself up, erect, lithe and supple--a figure to inspire confidence in the most despairing.