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238 How the ‘Spider. Wove His ‘Web. and interesting family are pieuy avenged, all he same. 1 can slay, and smile while the knife 1s in mine enemy 's vitals 1” The next afternoon Mr. Desmond walked over to the - cottage of old O’Neal, and had that interview with father and daughter. When he leit the old man and returned ecto the castle, he found his cousin awaiting him meats an. anxious face: “It’s all right, Rory, lad!” he said, cheerily. “She will meet you at dusk at the Fairy Well, and, by the same token, you have no time to spare, if you would not keep a lady waiting. It grows dusk now. Where is the donna ?”’ : — “In the drawing-room, with Lady Sarah. ~Confound it all, Gerald! I would rather go to my hanging than to _ this meeting with poor Kathleen!” ) “Would you, dear boy? Now, how inconsistent that 1s, after sending me to make the appointment! But as - you please. Shall I go in your stead, and tell Kathleen you are too—how shall we name it?—too nervous to * eome ?”’ ~~ “Pooh! At the Fairy Well, did you,say? Go, keep _ Lady Inez from feeling lonely until | return. She wished me to take her out for a walk, by the bye. Do you take V. her,Ger.” “Ah! she wished you to take her out? What excuse did you make?” “Told her I had an appointment with a friend. Go— _ there’s a good fellow !—keep her amused till I come back.” He started off briskly, and Gerald looked after him with a slow, evil smile. Then he turned and entered the house. | Lady Sarah sat by one of the windows, trying to read - by a pale, gray light. The donna stood listlessly at an- _ other, looking out over the wide sea. She turned quickly at the sound of footsteps, but her face clouded when she - saw who it was. | “The evening is pleasant, Lady Inez. Is it not a pity to spend it in-doors? What do you say to a walk?” “Thank you, senor,’ very coldly. “I will wait, I think, until Lord Roderick returns.” PAH He _ There was a world of meaning in that one little word, — * comicbooks co