I fancied it was only his rapid growth, and the excitement of this examination, and that it would go off, but I think there's more amiss.

He was lounging about doing nothing, when the girls were gone to school after dinner, and I asked him to walk down with me to the Almshouses.

He did not seem very willing, but he went, and presently, as I had hold of his arm, I felt him shivering, and saw him turn as pale as a sheet.

As soon as I noticed it, he flushed crimson, and would not hear of turning back, stoutly protesting he was quite well, but I saw his hand was quivering even when I got into church.

Why, Ethel, you have turned as red as he did." "Then he has done it!" exclaimed Ethel, in a smothered voice.
"What do you mean?
Speak, Ethel." "He has gone past it--the place," whispered she.
The doctor made a sound of sorrowful assent, as if much struck; then said, "you don't mean he has never been there since ?" "Yes," said Ethel, "he has always gone round Randall's alley or the garden; he has said nothing, but has contrived to avoid it." "Well," said Dr.May, after a pause, "I hoped none of us knew the exact spot." "We don't; he never told us, but he was there." "Was he ?" exclaimed her father; "I had no notion of that.