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wmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm day it came at times with, a little stinging pain. , Bert brought to see her an old friend, a college chum, Jack Fisher by name. He had lately entered the law firm that was administering the will of which she was one of the heirs. He became interested in the girl and called occasionally on a pre text of business. On one of these oc- A casions Grace told him what she hafi tile next moment why she had made a confidante of this man. But she was beginning to be overwrought, well-nigh obsessed with the idea that Fleming might me influenced by the little legacy, and she must have some proof of his real devotiori. It was so easy to make protestations. Fisher stood up stoutly for his friend. "Bert isn't that sort," he protested. "I'd bank on him any time. Why, he just thinks you're the only one in the world. You're some girl to him." She give him a little pleased, grate ful look. "I couldn't believe there was any thing that wasn't strong, fine and sincere about him," she said. "But, you see, I can't believe I'm the least bit of a wonderful girl, or that any one could see " "There!" he broke in. "You're get ting morbid. That cat of a woman has got you wuzzy. Cut it out!" The advice, if slangy, was "good, and Grace tried to follow it, but Jack Fisher, being an observant person, could see, as he expressed it, that" "it got in on her." He was also Becom ing aware of a fact which promised some rather painful complications. He could not disguise from himself that he was beginning to care more for Grace than was compatible with loyalty to his Friend. Then com menced the struggle between desire and renunciation, reason and sophis try, the angel and the devil which is in every human creature. One evening Fisher came in on the two in Grace's home. He looked trou bled, and seemed to try to cover it by rattling on in a superficial way. Finally he Said: "It's not exactly pleasant to to have to tell you why I came, but you see I'm right there in the office, and get things before outsiders, clients or others, and I thought it was up to me to to " "For heaven's sake, out with it! Don't keep us guessing!" cried Flem ing. "Well, the case has gone against you, Miss Perry. It doesn't look as though they would allow you a cent." She looked blankly at him, then she said quietly: "Wei, I suppose I shall go on living." "I guess so," said Fleming. "Please don't let on to any one I've told you," he added. "It wouldn't do to have them know I liad spoken be fore you were notified from the of fice; but I thought I ought to tell you." And making an excuse of an engagement, he took his departuVe. Two days after this, Fisher called Grace on the telephone and asked if she would see him. On receiving an affirmative answer he lost no time In getting there. "Well," he asked, coming directly to the point, "how are things be tween you and Bert? How did he take the news? You have confided in me and I have a right to know-" "Yes," she answered, "you have. You were right about Bert. You can 'bank on him' every time. I am hu miliated, ashamed, to think I har bored those ideas for a minute. On, he was so dear about it. What uo you think? He insisted' on the wed ding taking place right away at least in about a week. He says he wants to take me away somewhere to get the disappointment off my mind." "That's like him' said the man. "I would always have thought that. But, to tell the honest truth, when it came to this affair when you began to have doubts perhaps they some how lodged in my mind I began to have them, too. And well, I might as well make a clean breast of it I mtmtmmMmmmmmm