s, the grass cool under their
feet.

"It is enough," said Miss Graeme, with a rather forced laugh, "to make
one glad the castle does not go with the title."

"Why so?" asked Donal.

"Because," she answered, "were anything to happen to the boys up there,
Hector would come in for the title."

"I'm not of my sister's mind!" said Mr. Graeme, laughing more
genuinely. "A title with nothing to keep it up is a simple misfortune.
I certainly should not take out the patent. No wise man would lay
claim to a title without the means to make it respected."

"Have we come to that!" exclaimed Donal. "Must even the old titles of
the country be buttressed into respectability with money? Away in
quiet places, reading old history books, we peasants are accustomed to
think differently. If some millionaire money-lender were to buy the
old keep of Arundel castle, you would respect him just as much as the
present earl!"

"I would not," said Mr. Graeme. "I confess you have the better of
me.--But is there not a fallacy in your argument?" he added, thinkingly.

"I believe not. If the title is worth nothing without the money, the
money must be more than the title!--If I were Lazarus," Donal went on,
"and the inheritor of a title, I would use it, if only for a lesson to
Dives up stairs. I scorn to think that honour should wait on the heels
of wealth. You may think it is because I am and always shall be a poor
man; but if I know myself it is not therefore. At the same time a
title is but a trifle; and if you had given any other reason for not
using it than homage to Mammon, I should have said nothing."

"For my part," said Miss Graeme, "I have no quarrel with riches except
that they do not come my way. I should know how to use and not abuse
them!"

Donal made no other reply than to turn a look of divinely stupid
surprise and pity upon the young woman. It was of no use to say
anything! Were argument absolutely triumphant, Mammon would sit just
where he was before! He had marked the great indifference of the Lord
to the convincing of the understanding: when men knew the thing itself,
then and not before would they understand its relations and reasons!

If truth belongs to the human soul, then the soul is able to see it and
know it: if it do the truth, it takes therein the first possible, and
almost the last necessary step towards understanding it.

Miss Graeme caught his look, and must have perceived its expression,
for her fa