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* a © 122 LOUISE RECEIVES A CALLER. telligent basis for my conduct. Uncle dear,’’ and she st denly crossed to him and put her arms about his r ‘let me take that back. I didn’t meanit. I wouldn’t fc ‘the world say an unkind word to you, but you see I my lonely position so keenly. Ido what I think is but there is no one to uphold me.”’ Mr. Pembroke disengaged her arms, and again the « pression of pain flitted across his face. ‘*I am doing as wellasI can under the circumstances,’ he said huskily, ‘‘not only to show you my deep sym] thy, but to guide you also. For your own interests, I mt point out one possibility of your interview to-morrow. shall place 1.0 obstacle in the way of your seeing Lizz White, but I caution you, without knowing more abou her than that she left a good home, that she may take: most unfriendly attitude. If thereis anything unseemly i the meeting, I know that it will arise from her. No one can tell me that she lacks your native refinement; it mus be so; & woman such as she is at heart may make a dread. ful scene, whether she be interested in Ivan or not. Tot concerned in such a scene, my dear child, would be : stigma from which even your goodness could not escape Clara, there is nothing so scandalous as a quarrel be women when a man is in question.’’ ‘*You wish me not to see her,”’ said Clara, faintly. Mr. Pembroke rose and paced up and down in extreme agitation for several minutes, while Clara sat with a dreadful weight upon her heart; for she not only love her uncle, and wished earnestly to be guided by him possible, but she also realized that his warning was a wi one. She had herself, with all her thought, scarcely cor sidered how she should approach Lizzie White. So certain was she that Ivan had not eloped with her, that the inter. view itself had not appealed to her as more than a friendl: discussion of facts and rumors as to which both would t in accord. But there was her theory that Lizzie o aatae be -an accomplice of Poubalov’s. What attitue1 id Rent