sh, in behalf of the stranger.

"Somehow or other that man's face haunts me like a ghost," mused
Electra, dreamily.

"So it does me," quickly spoke Emma. "I feel sure that I have met those
sad, wistful dark eyes _somewhere_ before."

"I'll tell you both what. Whether you have ever met him before or not,
he _thinks_ he has seen you. He seemed to me to be trying to recollect
_where_ all the evening," said Laura Lytton, with her air of
positiveness.

"Then that might account for his awkwardness and embarrassment," added
Emma.

"But he is certainly very handsome," concluded Electra, as she took her
candle to retire.

Meanwhile the four gentlemen walked down the street together to a
corner, where they bade each other good-night and separated--Dr. Jones
and Alden Lytton to walk out to the University, and Mr. Lyle and Victor
Hartman to go to their hotel.

"What on earth was the matter with you, Victor?" inquired Mr. Lyle, as
they walked on together.

"What?" exclaimed Hartman, under his breath, and stopping short in the
street.

"Yes, what! I never saw a man so upset without an adequate cause in all
my life."

"Don't let us go into the house yet," said Victor; for they were now
before the door of the hotel. "It is only ten o'clock, and a fine night.
Take a turn with me down some quiet street, and I will tell you."

"Willingly," agreed Mr. Lyle; and they walked past the hotel and out
toward the suburbs of the little town.

"Mr. Lyle, I have seen them both!" exclaimed Victor, when they were out
of hearing of every one else.

"Both? Whom have you seen, Hartman?" inquired the minister a little
uneasily, as if he feared his companion was not quite sane.

"First, I have seen again the heavenly vision that appeared and
dispersed the furies from around me on that dark day when I passed, a
condemned criminal, from the Court House to the jail," replied Victor
Hartman, with emotion.

"Hartman, my poor fellow, are you mad?"

"No; but it was enough to make me so. To meet one of them, whom I never
expected to see again in this world, would have been enough to upset me
for a while; but to meet both, and to meet them together, who were so
widely apart in place and in rank, I tell you it was bewildering! I felt
as if I was under the influence of opium and in a delightful dream from
which I should soon awake. I did not quite believe it all to be real. I
do not quite believe it to be so yet. Have I seen that celestial
visi