Postscript - Page 2

necessary to add (first) that Moody was perfectly right in believing F. S. to be the person who informed Hardyman's father of Isabel's position when she left Lady Lydiard's house; and (secondly) that Felix did really forward Mr. Troy's narrative of the theft to the French police, altering nothing in it but the number of the lost bank-note.

What is there left to write about? Nothing is left--but to say good-by (very sorrowfully on the writer's part) to the Persons of the Story.

Good-by to Miss Pink--who will regret to her dying day that Isabel's answer to Hardyman was No.

Good-by to Lady Lydiard--who differs with Miss Pink, and would have regretted it, to her dying day, if the answer had been Yes.

Good-by to Moody and Isabel--whose history has closed with the closing of the clergyman's book on their wedding-day.

Good-by to Hardyman--who has sold his farm and his horses, and has begun a new life among the famous fast trotters of America.

Good-by to Old Sharon--who, a martyr to his promise, brushed his hair and washed his face in honor of Moody's marriage; and catching a severe cold as the necessary consequence, declared, in the intervals of sneezing, that he would "never do it again."

And last, not least, good-by to Tommie? No. The writer gave Tommie his dinner not half an hour since, and is too fond of him to say good-by.

THE END.

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