DAISY 17

one—| did not intend to hint at all that he was
in need of such influences; but so suspicious Was
he in his dawning manhood, that he resented my
remark, and relapsed into profound silence. A
minute later, he left me, under the pretence of
taking a short cut to the bank.

| did not see him again until evening.
entered the dining room on the first stroke of the
dinner bell. Mrs. rummond had just preceded
me. | could not help smiling at her dismayed
face. Baisy, with excited, nervous movements,
was dragging her high-chair from the head of the
table, to a place near Robertson’s.

That young man -has bewitched the child,”’
she said fretfully. “She slapped me just now,
because | would not let her put on. her. best dress

for him.”