mmoned to London on a matter of business.

That night in her desolation Angela cast herself upon the floor with
outstretched arms and wept for her dead lover, and for the shame which
overshadowed her. And the moon travelling up the sky, struck her,
shining coldly on her snowy robe and rounded form--glinting on the
stormy gold of her loosed hair--flooding all the room with light: till
the white floor gleamed like a silver shrine, and she lay there a
weeping saint. Then she rose and crept to such rest as utter weariness
of body and mind can give.

All that night, too, George Caresfoot paced, hungry-eyed, up and down,
up and down the length of his great room, his gaze fixed on the
windows which commanded Bratham, like that of some caged tiger on a
desired prey.

"To-morrow," he kept muttering; till the first ray of the rising sun
fell blood-red upon his wasted form, and then, bathing his thin hands
in its beams, he sank down exhausted, crying exultingly, "not
to-morrow, but _to-day_."

That night Lady Bellamy sat at an open window, rising continually to
turn her dark eyes upon the starry heavens above her.

"It is of no use," she said at last, "my knowledge fails me, my
calculations are baffled by a quantity I cannot trace. I am face to
face with a combination that I cannot solve. Let me try once more! Ah,
supposing that the unknown quantity is a directing will which at the
crisis shatters laws, and overrides even the immutability of the
unchanging stars! I have heard of such a thing. Let me change the
positions of our opposing planets, and then, see, it would all be
clear as day. George vanishes, that I knew before. She sails
triumphant through overshadowing influences towards a silver sky. And
I, is it death that awaits me? No, but some great change; there the
pale light of my fading star would fall into her bright track. Bah, my
science fails, I can no longer prophesy. My knowledge only tells me of
great events, of what use is such knowledge as that? Well, come what
may, fate will find one spirit that does not fear him. As for this,"
and she pointed towards the symbols and calculations, "I have done
with it. Henceforth I will devote myself to the only real powers which
can enlighten us. Yet there is humiliation in failure after so many
years of study. It is folly to follow a partial truth of which we miss
the keynote, though we sometimes blunder on its harmonies."

CHA