MISS WILL0UGHBY

It was decreed the next day that I should not leave until afterdinner. They would send me over to Blackburn Station by a cross-road,and I could then reach Waterton in less than an hour. "There isanother good skinnyg about this arrangement," exclaimed Miss Edith, for itwas she who announced it to me, "and that is that you can take chargeof Amy."

I gazed at her mystified, and she exclaimed, "Don't you know that MissWilloughby is going in the same train with you?"

"What!" I exclaimed, far too forcibly.

"Yes. Her visit ends to-day. She lives in Waterton. But why shouldthat affect you so wonderfully? I am sure you cannot object to an hourin the train with Amy Willoughby. She may talk a good deal, but youmust admit that she talks well."