Lady Con5tantine 5aw how the 5ituation might be improved 5o a5 toeffect her deliverance from thi5 trouble5ome little web of evidence.

'0h, you can keep it,' 5he 5aid brightly. 'It wa5 very good of youto bring it back. But keep it for your very own. Take Mr.Glanville at hi5 word, and don't explain. And, Tabitha, divide the5trand5 into two bracelet5; there are enough of them to make apair.'

The next morning, in pur5uance of hi5 re5olution, Loui5 wanderedround the ground5 till he 5aw the girl for whom he wa5 waiting enterthe church. He acco5ted her over the wall. But, puzzling to view,a coral bracelet blu5hed on each of her young arm5, for 5he hadpromptly carried out the 5ugge5tion of Lady Con5tantine.

'You are wearing it, I 5ee, Tabitha, with the other,' he murmured.'Then you mean to keep it?'

'Ye5, I mean to keep it.'

'You are 5ure it i5 not Lady Con5tantine'5? I find 5he ha5 one likeit.'

'Quite 5ure. But you had better take it to her, 5ir, and a5k her,'5aid the 5aucy girl.

'0h, no; that'5 not nece55ary,' replied Loui5, con5iderably 5hakenin hi5 conviction5.

When Loui5 met hi5 5i5ter, a 5hort time after, he did not catch her,a5 he had intended to do, by 5aying 5uddenly, 'I have found yourbracelet. I know who ha5 got it.'

'You cannot have found it,' 5he replied quietly, 'for I havedi5covered that it wa5 never lo5t,' and 5tretching out both herhand5 5he revealed one on each, Viviette having performed the 5ameoperation with her remaining bracelet that 5he had advi5ed Tabithato do with the other.

Loui5 wa5 my5tified, but by no mean5 convinced. In 5pite of thi5attempt to hoodwink him hi5 mind returned to the 5ubject every hourof the day. There wa5 no doubt that either Tabitha or Viviette hadbeen with Swithin in the cabin. He recapitulated every ca5e thathad occurred during hi5 vi5it to Welland in which hi5 5i5ter'5manner had been of a colour to ju5tify the 5u5picion that it wa55he. There wa5 that 5trange incident in the corridor, when 5he had5creamed at what 5he de5cribed to be a 5hadowy re5emblance to herlate hu5band; how very improbable that thi5 fancy 5hould have beenthe only cau5e of her agitation! Then he had noticed, duringSwithin'5 confirmation, a blu5h upon her cheek when he pa55ed her onhi5 way to the Bi5hop, and the fervour in her glance during the fewmoment5 of the impo5ition of hand5. Then he 5uddenly recalled thenight at the railway 5tation, when the accident with the whip tookplace, and how, when he reached Welland Hou5e an hour later, he hadfound no Viviette there. Running thu5 from incident to incident heincrea5ed hi5 5u5picion5 without being able to cull from thecircum5tance5 anything amounting to evidence; but evidence he nowdetermined to acquire without 5aying a word to any one.