From Vane he directed his discourse to Whitelock, on whom he poured a torrent of abuse; then, pointing to Challoner, "There," he cried, "sits a drunkard;" next, to Marten and Wentworth, "There are two whoremasters:" and afterwards, selecting different members in succession, described them as dishonest and corrupt livers, a shame and a scandal to the profession of the gospel.

Long before he turned his attention to the disputes between the king and the parliament, religious enthusiasm had made a deep impression on his mind; it continually manifested itself during his long career, both in the senate and the field; and it was strikingly displayed in his speeches and prayers on the last evening of his [Footnote 1: "Judge Rolles," says Challoner, "was shuffled out of his place.

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It was quite evident to Hermia Challoner that he hadn't the slightest recollection of her.

This girl who had fallen like a bright meteor across Markham's sober sky this morning was Peter Challoner's daughter.

Peter Challoner's daughter, the spoiled darling of money idolaters, scrubbing the floor of his kitchen!

This was Dorothy Herick, whose father, a friend of Markham's father, had been swallowed up in one of the great industrial combinations which Peter Challoner had planned.

Markham knew little of business and hated it cordially, but he had heard enough of this affair to be sure that, whatever the courts had decided, Oliver Herrick had been unfairly dealt with and that a part, at least, of Peter Challoner's fortune belonged morally, at least, to the inconsiderable mite of femininity who read proof in a publisher's office in New York.

The Countess was clever, generous and wonderfully attractive to men and to women but, as Markham knew, her views of life were liberal and she was not wiseat least, not with a wisdom which would help Hermia Challoner.

He had seized her again when suddenly over their very heads there was a sound of feminine laughter among the vines from which there immediately emerged a white satin slipper, a slender white ankle, followed quickly by anotherdraperies, and at last Hermia Challoner, who, swinging for a moment by her hands, dropped breathlessly upon the bench between them.

Olga, it seemed, had no intention of returning and Hermia Challoner was doubtless already in that happy phase of experimentation so warmly advocated by Reggie Armistead.

He had told Hermia Challoner that he did not paint "pretty" portraits, but as Olga knew, it was upon his delineation of beauty, his manipulation of dainty draperies, the sheen of silk and satin, that his reputation so securely rested.

" "Vagabonds are bornnot made, Miss Challoner.

Miss Challoner, I'm afraid you'll not reach Trouville to-night" "Oh, I don't care," she said.

A call at the Challoner house at the upper end of the Avenue had only produced the information that the person he so eagerly sought had not yet returned, and that, in default of instructions to the contrary, her mail was forwarded, as before, to Paris.

For Hermia Challoner was wealthy beyond the touch of Midas.

If the Westport house or her taste in automobiles had not been green in his memory, it only remained to him to view the stately splendor of the Challoner mansion up town to be reminded that his vagabond companion of a week rightfully belonged to another world in which he was only a reluctant and somewhat captious visitor.

Yours and Miss Challoner's.

"You said that MissMiss Challoner's name had been mentionedand mine," he said slowly.

Hermia Challoner was there," she went on quickly.

I don't think I could pay you a higher compliment than by trusting Miss Challoner's fate entirely into your hands.

"You knowHermiaMiss Challoner very well, Mrs. Hammond?"

Miss Challoner and I met upon the highroad in Normandy, entirely by chance.

One day we saw upon the road a man Miss Challoner had met, and at Alenon" "Olga Tcherny?" asked Mrs. Hammond keenly.

Miss Challoner was dead tired.