Come, Kate--do you go with me.

Not a syllable of this, remember, Kate, to Mrs.Rutter, or anybody else.

As for you, sir"-- and he looked Harry squarely in the face--"you will hear from me later on." With the same calm determination, he entered the ballroom, walked to the group forming the reel, and, with a set smile on this face indicating how idle had been everybody's fears, said loud enough to be heard by every one about him: "Only one of the men, my dear young people, who has been hurt in the too careless use of some firearms.

As to dear Kate--she has been so upset--she happened unfortunately to see the affair from the window--that she has gone to her room and so you must excuse her for a little while.

Now everybody keep on with the dance." With his wife he was even more at ease.