how. I am to be a lawyer, you
know, and I can find some kink which will work."

How he comforted her with his cheery, hopeful words, and how fast the
hours flew by until Tom came to take him back to Grey's Park. But Grey
begged so hard to stay all night, that Hannah ventured to keep him, and
Tom returned without him.

"I am not a bit afraid of the house now, and would as soon sleep in
grandpa's room as anywhere," he said to Hannah, as they sat together in
the evening, and then they talked of her future until Grey was old
enough to take care of her, as he meant to do.

"Shall you stay here?" he asked, and Hannah replied:

"I don't know yet what I shall do, I shall let your father decide for
me."

"You might live with us in Boston," Grey said. "That would be jolly for
me; but I don't know how you and mother would hitch together, you are so
unlike. I wish I was big, and married, and then I know just where you
would go. But father will arrange it, I am sure."

And three weeks later, when Burton came up from Boston after his son, he
did arrange it for her.

"It is of no use," he said to her. "I have tried meeting and mingling
with my friends, and I feel as if they saw on my face what is always in
my mind, and if I stay in Boston I shall some day scream out to the
public that my father was a murderer. I could not help it, and I can
understand now how Lucy was wrought upon to do what she did in church
when they thought her crazy. I shall be crazy, too, if I stay here, and
I am going away. Geraldine likes Europe, and so do I; and as I can leave
my business as well as not, I shall shut up my house, and go abroad
until I feel that I can look my fellowmen in the face."

"And Grey?" Hannah asked, sorrowfully, knowing how dreary her life would
be with him so far away.

"I shall take him with me," her brother replied, "I shall put him in
school somewhere in England or Germany, and send him eventually to
Oxford. But you will stay here, won't you? I'd rather you would."

"Yes," she answered, still more sadly, for she fully understood the
intense selfishness of the man, who went on:

"I shall be happier, knowing you are here, for I cannot have the house
sold, or rented, or even left alone, lest by some chance the secret of
our lives should be discovered. I am almost as morbid on the subject as
father was: but with you here, I shall feel safe. You can have any one
live with you whom you choose, and I will supply you with ple