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42 My Saturdays. quite given the whole business up as hopeless ; but I always was sure that my husband’s work needed only to be known to be appreciated.” ‘Yes; it is nonsense to think, as amateurs generally do, that introductions or influence are any good for selling stuff that is not worth buying. Professor Lingard’s information is most valuable, and his style is excellent ; if they had not been what they are, I might ~ have hawked them about for months, and done no good. And if he had sent them in on his own account to the same papers they would have done just as well, only there might have been more delay.” “And yet we failed when we did try.” ‘“‘ Because you did not try the right people, or at the right time. If now, when all these articles have appeared (and I dare say one or two more may be quarried out yet), Professor Lingard will take up his book again, and condense it into moderate dimensions, I expect he will find that the publishers will look at it in a very different fashion. They will have some guarantees for its success, and it will succeed.” ‘Oh, if it did, I should have nothing left to wish for. But I am sure it will. Now I shall be able to tell my husband all this good news, and it will cheer him upso. It has been a terrible weight on my mind to have this secret from him; I never had one before. Don’t you set up secrets when you are married,” she ended, with a gay laugh. ‘When I am married!” echoed Archie bitterly: “I begin to think I am destined to single cynicism. If so, I shall throw up my present work and go on to the ‘Saturday Review.’ ” “T hope you will not need to commit that kind of suicide,” said Rhoda, with gentle gravity. ‘‘I trust to see you some day as happy as Iam now. Iam sure you, who are so ready to help others, deserve to prosper yourself.” | “T don’t know what I deserve,” Archie answered, with a gloom very unlike him; ‘‘I only know that I have been and fallen in love with the sweetest girl in London, and there is about as much chance of my marrying her as “ ‘“‘“As there seemed last month of my husband’s book being published,” laughed Rhoda. ‘‘No, you shall not despair; you scolded me for doing so, and now I will scold you. I feel flooded with hope and joy; I am floating on it, and I will take you into my boat. Come out, and let us find Edwin; I am wild to tell him, and then he must talk to you; you scarcely know each other.” ‘‘T hope he will not think me an impertinent meddler, for pro- posing to cut his book to pieces. Otherwise, I shall be very pleased to improve his acquaintance.” ‘He will be as grateful to you as Tam. Now that you know him partly through his writings, you will be better able to appreciate him than after months of mere social meetings. And I want him to be appreciated. No one really knows what he is and could do but I.” As she spoke, they were moving out to the lawn, and their foot- a ECORNIE OOO KS (E()