It was misery! One day he managed to write: 'If you are in trouble, go to Riley & Bonner--ask them.' They were his solicitors, whom he had depended on from his boyhood.

But since his death I have never wanted anything from them but a little help in business.

They have been very good; but--I could not go and question them.

If there was anything to know--papa had not been able to tell me--I did not want anybody else--to--" Her voice dropped.

Only half an hour since the flowering of life! What a change in both! She was pacing along slowly, her head thrown back; the oval of her face white among her furs, under the ghostly touch of the moonlight; a suggestion of something austere--finely remote--in her attitude and movement.