"The most right? Well, there's a great deal to be said on both sides, Lucy. If there was no marriage, of course the property does belong to the Carrs of Eckford; if there was a marriage, they have no right to it whatever. In any case, the blame lies with Robert Carr; and his descendants suffer." "Do you think there was a marriage?" continued Lucy. Mr. Arkell shook his head. "I don't, my dear, now. Had there been one, some traces of it would have been found ere this." "Then young Mrs. Carr will lose the law-suit!" "Undoubtedly. It appears very strange to me that Fauntleroy should go on with it." The hands were warm now, and Lucy rose. "You have done me good, Lucy," said Mr. Arkell, as she was putting on her gloves to leave; "good in all ways. A bright face and a cheering manner! my dear, in sickness, they are worth their weight in gold." Making the best of her way home, she found Travice alone. Henry was upstairs with his mother, uncording boxes. "What a time you have been, Lucy!" was the salutation; for it had seemed very long to him. "Have I? I did not once sit down. Mr. Arkell says I look well after my sojourn, but I told him he should see mamma." "So he should. But I must be going, Lucy. _Do_ you look well?" He took both her hands in his, and stood before her, his face a little bent, regarding her intently. Lucy blushed violently under the gaze. Suddenly, without any warning, his lips were on hers; and he took the first kiss that he had taken from Lucy since her childhood. "Don't be angry with me, Lucy! Think it a cousin's kiss, if you will." As he went out, the large shadow of a large, gaily-dressed woman, passing between him and the setting sun, was cast upon Travice Arkell. The shadow of Barbara Fauntleroy. If he could but have foreseen the type it was of the terrible shadow that was to fall upon him in the future! END OF VOL. II. * * * * * Transcriber's note: In general every effort has been made to replicate the original text as faithfully as possible, including some instances of no longer standard spelling and punctuation. However, obvious punctuation errors have been corrected. In particular, there were several occurences of words split at the end of a line where the space for the hyphen was evident but the hyphen itself was not visible; these words have been rejoined as if the hyphen was present. Hyphenation has been made consistent. The following changes were made to correct apparent errors, generally of typographical nature: