Thus for a time matters remainedlittle Imtiazan wearing her delicate fingers out at home, he plying his pen in the street, until one day a dancing-girl from Lucknow called him to her house to write an important missive on her behalf.

"Lettah f'um Kuhnal Washin'ton, sah," he said, and handed me the missive.

None of these letters or invitations had stronger effect to induce him to take a journey to Maryland, than the closely penned missive did, though it was only a friendly letter.

Martha held forth the missive.

The "somebody coming" was a very quiet but a very observing girl, who, as she saw the sudden start of Lizzy and Nelly, also caught sight of the little white missive as it was whisked into Nelly's pocket, and immediately thought, "There's some mischief going on.

"Here is a letter for you, uncle," said Mary Pratt, struggling to command her feelings, though she blushed with the consciousness of her own interest in the missive "It came from the Harbour, by some mistake;

While he was in the height of his joy at this change in the aspect of things, the niece stole into her own room in order to read the missive she had received, by herself.

It was, perhaps, no more than human nature, or woman's nature at least, that, in time, she got most to regard those passages which best answered to the longings of her own heart; and that she came at last to read the missive, forgetful in a degree, that it was written by one who had deliberately, and as a matter of faith, adopted the idea that the Redeemer was not, in what may be called the catholic sense of the term, the Son of God.

" Well, I argued, and refused, but in the long run he forced me to agree to put a missive into Mrs. Linton's hand.

Had he known that Miss Pemberton, several weeks after their visit to the Sound, had driven out again to the hotel and made some inquiries among the servants, he might have understood better the meaning of this missive.

"I may have made an impression, but certainly not a ten-strike," he thought to himself, as he folded up the missive and put it into the most sacred compartment of his Russia-leather pocketbook, along with the letter of credit.

THE UNDERGROUND MISSIVE XXVII.

Besides, the interest will accumulate a good while before you get the missive.

The president ran his eye over the missive.

Neither on leaving the room nor on returning would she take up the missive.

He might never have understood the matter thoroughly had it not been for a missive he received one day through the mail.

It was another missive from the Spaniard, and read: MY ESTEEMED BEDIENT:

Even now I received a mysteriously worded missive adjuring me to come at once.

Watching my opportunity, I slipped the missive between the leaves of a copy of the Saturday Evening Post.

One of the clerks at the shop in which I left the missive found and mailed it.

" I sat for a while staring at this good man's letter, then opened the next missive.

" Bobby stuffed the missive under his air-pillow, and rolled over without a word.

MISSIVE TO .

The following evening, when, broken-hearted, she wandered down the quays living over again the agonizing moments during which she lost her pet, a workman in a blue blouse, with a peaked cap pulled well over his eyes, lurched up against her and thrust into her hand the missive which she had just shown me.

la Comtesse de Nolé, who could not say more than that he might have formed part of the gang who had jostled her on the Quai Voltaire, whilst the servant who had taken the missive from him failed to recognize him.