M. GREY."

She immediately sealed this letter, rang for a waiter, and dispatched it
to the post-office.

This letter had been written for but one purpose--to bring Craven Kyte
immediately to Richmond, without seeming especially to invite him to
come.

She always wrote her letters with an eye to the remote contingency of
their being produced in court or read in public.

This letter to Craven Kyte was a sample of her non-committal style--it
compromised no one.

When she had sent it off she began to pack up her effects, in
preparation for their removal, on Monday morning, to the Misses Cranes'.

Even after that work was done she could not be still. Like an uneasy
beast of prey, she must needs move to and fro.

So she put on her bonnet, called a carriage and drove out to the rectory
to spend the evening.

But though she was received in the most friendly manner she could not
enjoy the visit. She was absent and distracted during the whole evening.

She returned late to a restless bed. And then she got up and took
laudanum to put her to sleep. And this was not the first time she had
had to resort to the same dangerous narcotic.

No more rest for Mary Grey!

Remorse sometimes begins _before_ the commission of a contemplated and
determined crime; repentance never. That is one difference between the
two.

On Sunday morning, to keep herself actively employed, as well as to win
"golden opinions," Mrs. Grey dressed herself plainly, but very
becomingly, and went early to the Sunday-school at old St. John's, to
offer herself as a teacher.

She was soon appointed to the temporary charge of a class of little
girls, whose regular teacher was then absent on a summer tour of the
watering places.

Afterward she attended both morning and afternoon services, and went to
a missionary meeting in the evening.

Still, after all the fatigues of the day, she was unable to sleep at
night, and again she had recourse to the deadly drug.

On Monday morning she paid her week's bill at the hotel and removed to
the Misses Cranes'.

She was received with lofty politeness by the two maiden ladies; and she
was put in immediate possession of her apartment--a spacious chamber,
with a balcony overhanging the front flower-garden.

She had scarcely finished unpacking her effects and transferring them
from her trunks to the bureaus and wardrobes of the chamber, before a
card was brought to her by the neat parlor-maid of the establ