But she looked the questions she could no longer put, and compassionating her misery, I gently said: "Your love has been fixed upon a very unstable heart; but you have rights which must yet insure you his support.

There is some one who will protect these rights and protect you in your efforts to substantiate them." "His aunt," she put in, shaking her head.

"She can do nothing, unless--" Her excitement became abnormal.

"Have they found the money ?" she shrieked; "have they--have they found the money ?" I could not deceive her; she had seen it in my eye.
"And they will--" "Hardly," I whispered.

"He has displeased them; they can not be generous to him now." Her hopes sank as if the very basis of her life had been taken away.
"It was my only hope," she murmured.