They parted thus and there, and Grace went moodily homeward. Passing

Marty's cottage she observed through the window that the girl was

writing instead of chopping as usual, and wondered what her

correspondence could be. Directly afterwards she met people in search

of her, and reached the house to find all in serious alarm. She soon

explained that she had lost her way, and her general depression was

attributed to exhaustion on that account.

Could she have known what Marty was writing she would have been

surprised.

The rumor which agitated the other folk of Hintock had reached the

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young girl, and she was penning a letter to Fitzpiers, to tell him that

Mrs. Charmond wore her hair. It was poor Marty's only card, and she

played it, knowing nothing of fashion, and thinking her revelation a

fatal one for a lover.




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