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- he | oo, 200 A HEART’S BITTERNESS. not give the poor creature in charge, and I thought you would not like a public scandal.” Rh ‘‘You did quite right,” said Leigh. ‘‘ For the time she has gone; but, Violet, I know that woman will bring on us, on our boy, some fatal trouble.” | «And if it must be so, Norman,” said Violet, gently, ‘<how better can we meet trouble than by trying to do our best, and help each other?” . Leigh was overcome. He sank on his knees, and clasped and kissed her hands. “Oh, Violet, good, kind little Violet, I am unworthy of you! I, in my sins, am always destroying our home, while you, brave and gently, are trying to defend it.” | CHAPTER XLV. - ‘THAT ENDS ALL BETWEEN US.” For a little time the vagrant heart of Leigh seemed to turn to Violet with gratitude, almost with love. He spoke kindly to her, had some thoughtful care for her comfort. “You wanted Magery Rogers for the boy’s nurse,” he said, ‘‘and you shall have her. Adam shall go and bring her here. You shall not be frightened again by a.stran- er.”’ He sent Adam for Magery, telling him to bid her be © silent about her insane lodger, Bart Kemp. In a few days Magery had returned to the scene of her childhood, and the nursery where she had been little maid to the late lord’s sister. Her passionate devotion to Violet and her child knew no bounds. ‘« My lord,” said Adam, seeking a private conference, the day after his return, ‘‘ while gone, I saw an advertisement _ asking news of Bart Kemp, and describing our man ex- actly. I went to the address given, and I found a littie gray, shrewd lawyer. He told me what the man was like, even to the big plaid suit, which is up in my closet now, for I put other things on him when I'took him away. He told me, my lord, that Kemp had been over twenty years in Australia, and had made money, and that he had funds and papers belonging to him in his office. He says Kemp is rather rich, and was with him the middle of November, (E(0) Eomicbooks