* * * * * Gilbert Eversleigh and Kitty Thornton did not come together at once again--the shadow of Bennet lay between them, but in the course of time they did, as was inevitable. "When thou doest well unto thyself," said the satirist, "all men will speak well of thee." And Gilbert Eversleigh, the rising barrister, backed by the beauty and wealth of his wife, is spoken well of by all the world. The other side of life's double shield is to be seen at Ivydene, where there may be beheld, nursed and tended by a wife's unchanging love, and a daughter's unalterable affection, a white-haired, bent figure, from whose loose lips there comes the question, over and over again, "What o'clock is it? What o'clock is it?" THE END PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, LIMITED, LONDON AND BECCLES. End of Project Gutenberg's The Mystery of Lincoln's Inn, by Robert Machray