CHAPTER XIII.
"YOU WILL BE DISAPPOINTED" Graydon felt that it was scarcely possible to resent Mr.Arnault's tactics or to blame Miss Wildmere.

The former certainly had as good a right to be a suitor as himself, and even to his prejudiced mind it would have been ungracious in the lady had she not given some reward for his rival's long journey.

It was natural that Mr.Arnault, an old friend of the Wildmeres, should sit at their table and receive the consideration that he enjoyed.

Graydon had little cause for complaint or vexation, since his rival would depart in the morning, and, judging from to-day, his own suit was approaching a successful termination.
The coast would be clear on the morrow, and he determined to make the most of opportunities.

He now even regretted that Madge and his relatives were at the house, for in some degree they trammelled his movements by a watchful attention, which he believed was not very friendly.