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fee ee eG O'S Y.. FEBRUARY 2, 1874. eee ee er OO IN THE DEAD OF NIGHT. ee Oe CHAPTER V, EDITH WEST. HE London clocks were just striking midday as a gentleman drove up to the door of No. 6, Roehampton Terrace, Bays- water. It was Lionel Dering. He had reached London two days previously, but he would not venture to call on Edith West without first writing to her aunt and obtaining the requisite sanction. Mr. Garside had been dead nearly a year, but Edith and her aunt still continued to live together. In his note to Mrs. Garside, Lionel simply said that by a sudden change of fortune he was again in a position to pay his addresses to Miss West, and he solicited her per- mission to allow him to do so. Mrs. Garside was only too happy to bid him welcome to Roehampton Terrace. Indeed, it is by no means improbable that she would have welcomed him had he gone to her on the same errand without a shilling in the world. She had discovered long ago that Edith was too faithful to the memory of her first love for there to be much hope that a second one would ever find a place in her heart. As Mrs. Garside had said to herself a score times since her husband’s death, ‘‘ It would be far better for Edith to marry Mr. Dering without a penny than for her never to marry at all. Edith’s fortune, if managed with economy, would suffice to keep them in tolerable comfort—not in London, perhaps, but in some quiet country place, or in some cheap corner of the Continent ; and Edith is one of those girls who can make themselves happy aay ihere.” Under these circumstances, it is hardly to be wondered at that Mrs. « Garside was very glad to see Lionel Dering under her roof again, more VOL, XVII. G GOMIIGDIOG SS) (C(O)