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10. Edina. “It’s what you need not have heard about, mother. I came away from Oxford without paying a few pounds I owe there; that’s all. There need be no fuss about it.” ‘*T hear of wine bills, and hired horses, and things of that kind. Oh my dear, ced you have entered into that sort of fast life ?” “ Others enter into it,” said Charley. “Tt is not so much the cost that troubles me,” added Mrs. Raynor, in a loving tone ; “that can be met somehow. It is ——” she stopped as if seeking for words. “Tt is what, mother?” ‘“* Charley, my dear, what I think of is this—that you may be falling into the world’s evil ways. It is so easy to do it ; you young lads are so inexperienced and confiding ; you think all is fair that looks fair; that no poison lurks in what has a specious surface. And oh, my boy, you know that there is a world after this world ; and if you were to fall too deeply into the ways of ¢Ais, to get to love it, to be unable to do without it, you might never gain the other. Some young lads that have fallen away from God, have not cared to find Him again ; never have found Him.” ‘There has been no harm,” said Charley. “And I assure you I don’t often miss chapel.” “ Charley, dear, there’s a verse in Ecclesiastes that I often think of,” she resumed in a low sweet tone. “All mothers think of it, I fancy, when their sons begin to go out in the world.” ‘‘In Ecclesiastes ?”’ repeated Charley. “‘ The verse that Edina illuminated for us once when she was staying at Spring Lawn. It was her doing it, I think, that helped to impress it so much on my memory.” ‘“«T remember it, mother mine.” The verse was this : “ Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.” Fe CHAPTER XxX, A TIGER. Tue late spring flowers were blooming ; the air was soft and balmy. Easter was that year nearly as late as it could be; in fact, April was drawing to its close; and when Easter comes so late as that, it generally brings with it glowing sunshine. | comicbooks.com