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152 THE MAN IN POSSESSION. facedly. ‘‘ You look tired and wearied: get to bed and have a good sleep, and I assure you everything will look much better to-morrow and you'll be quite willing to give Jocelyn another chance.” He kissed her forehead and left the room, rather haunted by that white sad face of her, and yet con- vinced that he had acted for the best. Kate sank down in the low chair by the fire and - buried her face in herhands. Seldom had she felt so utterly and entirely miserable as she felt to-night. It seemed as if everything had gone wrong. She was keenly conscious too of an intense disappointment respecting Tom Rivers. He had seemed to her so honest, so open, so straightforward. Subterfuge and meanness were the last things she could have associated with him, and yet what a discovery she had made. He had gained possession of facts which he must have known were intensely humiliating, and these facts he had used against her—prompted by some silly vanity that seemed utterly unworthy of any man. Not content with this, he had urged Sir Wilfred on to that proposal which had ended so disgracefully. As she thought of that scene in the supper-room the blood mounted to her very brow: she blamed it all on Rivers, and she was too angry with him to be logical. ‘“‘Tam really very unfortunate,” she thought, as she meditated on the situdtion. ‘‘I was unpopular before —but what will it be now? Iam sure Lady Jocelyn will be very much offended.” She began to consider her father’s advice. After all COMicloe (Sri C(O)