“‘Kill me or torture me personally in any way you desire, but I beg of you do not be a party to the visitation of disgrace on my child. Yours,

“‘LESLIE.’

“And I am hunting Emily Sutton Marsh with a view to returning her to the place where she belongs.”

TALE TWENTY.
A SCIENTIFIC PHENOMENON.

“When I remember something which I had,

But which is gone, and I must do without,

I sometimes wonder how I can be glad,

Even in cowslip time, when hedges sprout;

It makes me sigh to think on it,—but yet