and probably Greece
and Constantinople. Cedric had a great desire to visit the Crimea and
the shores of the Bosphorus, and to see something of Eastern life. In
all probability Christmas and the New Year would be spent in Cairo. "We
had better leave Dunlop to work out details," continued Malcolm, "as
money or time seem no object. You may as well give them a long tether.
Change of scene will do Cedric a world of good, and when he is tired of
wandering he will settle down more happily. Very likely by that time he
will have some idea of what he wants to do;" and Malcolm's sound
common-sense carried the day.

Dinah spoke very little of her sister. She was well, she said in answer
to Malcolm's inquiries--Elizabeth was so strong that her health rarely
suffered; but she was grieving sorely for David. "Mr. Carlyon is
better," she continued. "Elizabeth is the greatest comfort to him. She
goes with him when he visits the sick, and sits beside him when he
writes his sermons. Indeed, Theo says they are never apart. Theo is
very much softened and subdued by her brother's death," went on Dinah.
"I think Elizabeth's influence and example will do good there. I
believe that, with all her faults, Theo Carlyon is really a
good-hearted woman."

Malcolm paid a flying visit to Oxford soon after he got back to
town--somehow movement seemed necessary to him in those weary, restless
days--and he took Mr. Dunlop with him, and had the satisfaction of
seeing that Cedric appeared to like him at once.

"He does not seem to stand on tiptoe and look over a fellow's head,
don't you know," observed Cedric. "He meets one on equal terms, though
he is ten years older. He is a chip of your block, Herrick, and I
expect he is a good fellow too"--and all this speech did Malcolm retail
to Dinah in his next letter.

Cedric spent three or four days at Cheyne Walk before he started for
the Continent, and again most of his time was devoted to his friends at
27 Queen's Gate.

Malcolm was secretly glad that he was in such safe hands, for, as the
time of Cedric's departure drew near, he could not divest himself of an
uneasy fear that all their precautions might be unavailing, and that,
when they least expected it, he and Leah Jacobi would come face to
face. He knew that she and her new friend Mrs. Richardson were now
settled at Sandy Hollow for the summer, and that Mrs. Richardson came
frequently to town for sight-seeing or shopping expeditions.

Malcolm littl