country-garden mackintoso greet , ing ing for  last -- te King Celligently cocked, on t gave ing proof of s ricity to see the dog wore, in place of a collar, a diamond necklace.

    to its feet in tle leatudy on t floor, o a roaring log fire. On table, a silver tray; round ter, a silver tag ation: Eat me, in a flo beef, still bloody. e t mustard tfully provided in a stone, and,  rotted off about her own business.

    All t remained to make Beautys fatirely comfortable o find, in a curtained recess, not only a telep t advertised a ty-four-er and  trouble, only t up from tions to t one of deference, as soon as he house from where he was calling.

    And ed but, in ances, relieved to able if absent s account; no question, assured t ers custom.

    time for anotried, unsuccessfully, to call Beauty and tell e; but till doorm  curtains revealed a landscape as of ivory  in tily o tell  ime to be gone, t tality was over.

    As to bee.

    Great rees and, em on o te, a cly to to reveal, as if miraculously preserved beneat, one last, single, perfect rose t mig rose left living in all te er, and of so intense and delicate a fragrance it seemed to ring like a dulcimer on the frozen air.

    , so mysterious, so kind, deny Beauty ?

    Not noant but close to  door, rose a migo s breat still, because er, Beautys fatole the rose.

    At t, every  and a fugal baying, as if a pride of lions, introduced .

    ty about great bulk, an assertiveness, a quality of be