lie for him, he indicted her. When Herby Branscum and Rob

she had seen at once that there was no doubt. She could not have said,

for instance, that she had foreseen something of the sort- and yet

now, as soon as he told her, she suddenly fancied that she had

really foreseen this very thing.

"Stop, Sonia, enough! don't torture me," he begged her miserably.

It was not at all, not at all like this he had thought of telling

her, but this is how it happened.

She jumped up, seeming not to know what she was doing, and, wringing