"I've only made him more set by what I've said," thought she.

"Now, he has committed himself.

I ought not to have been so tactless." Long after Hiram got back in part the power of speech, he spoke only when directly addressed, and then after a wait in which he seemed to have cast about for the fewest possible words.

After a full week of this emphasized reticence, he said, "Where is Arthur ?" Arthur had kept away because--so he told himself and believed--while he was not in the least responsible for his father's illness, still seeing him and being thus reminded of their difference could not but have a bad effect.

That particular day, as luck would have it, he for the first time since his father was stricken had left the grounds.