, around, against,within, above him, g to him, wooing him, g him so poignantly through the fi even his grosser ones beisant of the  he answered loudly: "Yes, dear!"

    and turned, wild-eyed, to gaze on vacy, for he ot yet dis and d love ached arms in the e. Oh, God! whe odour, and sin have odours had a voice to call? Thus he groped.

    He burrowed in crevid ers, and found d cigarettes.

    These he passed i. But ond in a fold of the matting a half-smoked d this he grouh his heel with a gree oath. He sifted the room from end to end.

    He fnoble small reait; but of her whom he sought, and who may have lodged there, a seemed to hover there, he found no trace.

    A of the housekeeper.

    He raed room downstairs and to a door that showed a crack of light. She came out to his khered his ext as best he could.

    "Will you tell me, madam," he besought her, "who occupied the room I have before I came?"

    "Yes, sir. I  tell you again. 'Trowls and Mooney, as I said. Miss B'retta Sprowls it was ires, but Missis Mooney she was. My house is well knowability. The marriage certifig, framed, on a nail over--"

    "What kind of a lady rowls--in looks, I mean?"

    Why, black-haired, sir, short, and stout, with a ical face. They left a week ago Tuesday."

    "Ahey occupied it?"

    "Why, there was a silemahe draying busi owing me a week. Before him was Missis d her two , that stayed four months; and ba was old Mr. Doyle, whose sons paid for him. He k