quot; he now asked.

    "You are too inquisitive, St. Jo able and required an answer by a second firm and piercing look.

    "t," I replied concisely.

    " to keep, bot. Joioner," remarked Diana.

    "Yet if I kno you or your ory, I cannot ?"

    "I need it, and I seek it so far, sir, t some true p  me in tting  necessaries of life."

    "I kno  I am o aid you to tmost of my po, tell me o do, and w you CAN do."

    I ea. I  gave neone to my unstrung nerves, and enabled me to address trating young judge steadily.

    "Mr. Rivers," I said, turning to   me, openly and  diffidence, "you and your sisters  service -- test man can do ality, from deat conferred gives you an unlimited claim on my gratitude, and a claim, to a certain extent, on my confidence. I ell you as mucory of tell  compromising my oy, moral and p of others.

    "I am an orper of a clergyman. My parents died before I could kno up a dependant; educated in a cable institution. I ell you tablis, eac, Mr. Rivers? -- t Brockle is treasurer."

    "I , and I he school."

    "I left Loo become a private governess. I obtained a good situation, and  and oug to explain: it taco me: I am as free from culpability as any one of you t be for a time; for tastroprange and direful nature. I observed but ts in planning my departure