Is not life enriched thereby beyond robbery?
And what harm?
Raeburn is not injured.
_She_ will never tell--and neither of us will ever forget.

Ah!--what was that ?" He walked quickly to the window.

What he had heard had been a dull report coming apparently from the woods beyond the eastern side of the avenue.

As he reached the window it was followed by a second.
"That poacher's gun ?--no doubt!"-- he strained his eyes in vain--"Collision perhaps--and mischief?
No matter! I have nothing to do with it.

The world is all lyric for me to-night.