CHAPTER XVI.
"'Tis easier for the generous to forgive Than for offence to ask it." In passing through the hall on his way from Lulu's room to the nursery, Capt.

Raymond met "grandma Elsie." She stopped him, and asked, in a tone of kindly concern, if Lulu was ill, adding, that something she had accidentally overheard him saying to the doctor had made her fear the child was not well.
"Thank you, mother," he said: "you are very kind to take any interest in Lulu after what has occurred.

No, she is not quite well: the mental distress of the last two days has been very great, and has exhausted her physically.

It could not, of course, be otherwise, unless she were quite heartless.

She is full of remorse for her passion and its consequences, and my only consolation is the hope that this terrible lesson may prove a lasting one to her." "I hope so, indeed," Elsie said, with emotion.