Very certainly Rudolph Musgrave was not Patricia's informant; it is doubtful if the colonel ever conceded his sister's infirmity in his most private meditations; so that Patricia found the cause of Miss Agatha's "attacks" to be an open secret of which everyone in the house seemed aware and of which by tacit agreement nobody ever spoke.

No doubt the stout Cumberland and Westmoreland farmers and hinds were good and loyal subjects of Queen Victoria, but for all practical purposes of reverence and obedience, Musgrave was king at Edenhall.

My Lord of Kent is gone hence in a chafe, And now I purpose that she shall be yours, Yet to herself unknown; for she shall think That Musgrave is the man, but it shall be you: Seem you still discontented, and no more.

Colonel Musgrave was mid-course in an anecdote which the lady upon the other side of him found wickedly amusing.

* Miss MILLS YOUNG tells us that John Musgrave, the middle-aged hero of Coelebs (LANE), "was not a prig, but he came perilously near to being one at times."

Why, cousin Musgrave, are your eyes so blind You cannot see the truth of that report?

Lady Musgrave was a particularly lady-like woman, the marked elegance of whose breeding might, with advantage, have given the tone to many a London drawing-room.

Colonel Musgrave was his mentor throughout the process; and the oldest families of Lichfield very shortly sat at table with the former overseer, and not at all unwillingly, since his dinners were excellent and an infatuated Rudolph Musgravean axiom now in planning any list of guests,was very shortly to marry the man's daughter.

He bestowed a reproachful sigh upon her, and continued: "At any rate, Rudolph Musgrave has been an unusually lucky manthe luckiest that I know of.

Much curious matter the colonel discovered there, for "Wild Will" Musgrave's had been a full-blooded career.

Colonel Musgrave was, in a decorous fashion, the happiest of living persons.

Colonel Musgrave was mid-course in an anecdote which the lady upon the other side of him found wickedly amusing.