“Never mind. It is really no affair of mine. If it is anything to you, you will hear all in good time. I think I must be going now. I have a number of things to do. Good-bye, Mr. Cossart. I will tell them to bring your horse to the door.” She turned and left him—left him standing like a man half-stunned. That was a pretty outcome of his day’s wooing. Fear and rage wrestled for mastery in his heart as he rode away from the house, resolved never to cross that threshold again. He had been so confident that all the trouble had blown over by this time, that nobody, not even Oscar, had been much the worse, that no strict inquiry had ever been set on foot. His face was still pale, and he felt shaken and nervous as he walked from the livery stables home. He was half afraid to enter the drawing-room lest his appearance should excite comment. But as it happened there was another excitement on foot which quite shielded him from notice. Voices were speaking in rapid eager tones. “What can it be? How very strange!” “Alone too, or she would not want meeting.” “Oscar must go, of course, but it is all very odd.” “What’s the matter?” asked Cyril, in as easy a tone as he could master. “Why, look there,” cried Ray, putting a telegram into his hand, “that has just come from Uncle Cossart in Madeira.” The message ran as follows— “Sheila returns by _Dunraven Castle_. Have her met.” (_To be continued._) [Illustration] WILL SHE GROW OUT OF IT? BY DR. GORDON STABLES, M.D., C.M., R.N. (“MEDICUS”). The first part of this paper at all events may be supposed to be addressed to young mothers, rather than to young girls, but I have no doubt that the latter will have a peep at it just to see if there is anything in it which concerns them. I shall not tell them whether there is or not. Let them read on and see. My main difficulty in writing it I feel will be one of condensation. The subject of inherited ailments and congenital malformation is one of such importance that it is a book thereon I should publish, and not a single paper. However, if it leads young parents to think, thinking is sure to lead to action, and with the hints I shall give, and of course the help of their family doctor, many a young life may not only be saved, but children may grow up strong and bonnie, who through neglect or ignorance might have anything but happy futures, and lives so weary that their brevity might well be looked upon as a blessing.