Letty and the law, by Faith Baldwin.

Moran of the Lady Letty. Vol.3.

Oh, yes; she wanted me to say to you that she was well-and so is that other girlwhat's her name?" "Letty Lynden?" "Oh, yesLetty Lynden.

he said, "where is Mrs. Paige?" Celia had caught the girl's hands in hers, and was searching her thin white face with anxious eyes; and Letty shook her head and looked wonderingly at Berkley.

"She is quite well," repeated Letty reassuringly; and, to Celia: "She sends her love to you and to your husband and son, and wishes to know how they are and where their regiment is stationed.

And as soon as she left the room Letty sprang to her feet and went straight to Berkley.

" "To see me, Letty?" he repeated, surprised and smiling.

I knew what you would say" "Letty!

punishment!and Casson stared at me and said: 'My Lord, Letty!

"I thought it wasbut there is no shelterno placeno place in all the earth!" "Letty," he said slowly, "if your Dr. Benton is the man I think

Come here, Letty.

And you shall not doubt it, Letty.

Now you must smile at me, Letty.

So the napkin was spread over the sheets, and pillows tucked behind Berkley; and Celia and Letty fed him, and Letty drank her coffee and thankfully ate her bacon and corn pone, telling them both, between bites, how it had been with her and with Ailsa since the great retreat set in, swamping all hospitals with the sick and wounded of an unbeaten but disheartened army, now doomed to decimation by disease.

So the napkin was spread over the sheets, and pillows tucked behind Berkley; and Celia and Letty fed him, and Letty drank her coffee and thankfully ate her bacon and corn pone, telling them both, between bites, how it had been with her and with Ailsa since the great retreat set in, swamping all hospitals with the sick and wounded of an unbeaten but disheartened army, now doomed to decimation by disease.

" Celia reddened to the ears, and her lips tightened, but she said nothing; and Letty went on, unconscious of the fiery emotions awaking in Celia's breast: "Everybody was so cheerful and happy in the hospitalall those poor sick soldiers," she said, "and everybody was beginning to plan to go home, thinking the war had nearly ended.

"Mother," he said in an awed voice, "Jimmy Lent is dead!" "What!" He looked stupidly around the room, resting his eyes on Letty and Berkley, then dropped heavily onto a chair.

Letty calmly lifted the tray from the bed and set it on a table.

Then Berkley opened the letter that Letty had brought him: "This is just a hurried line to ask you a few questions.

" Wondering, vaguely uneasy, he read and re-read this note, so unlike Ailsa, so brief, so disturbing in its direct coupling of the people in whose company he had first met Letty Lynden. . . .

Yet, on reflection, he dismissed apprehension, Ailsa was too fine a character to permit any change in her manner to humiliate Letty even if, by hazard, knowledge of the unhappy past had come to her concerning the pretty, pallid nurse of Sainte Ursula.

Letty is struck dumb with astonishment at first, but the awful change, which two years have effected, gradually dawns on her.

This is no other than "Sister Letty," dressed up in order to frighten the youth out of his wits.

Later on, Sister Letty, looking from the window, sees a grand fight going on between Master Harry and a butcher-boy, and then Harry enters with his coat off, his sleeves tucked up, explaining in a state of blazing excitement that he "had to fight that butcher-boy, because he had struck a little girl in the street.

" Letty sees that the lad has a fine nature in spite of his folly, and appeals to his heart and the nobility of his naturethis time not in vain.