Chapter 18 GOOD-BYE.

"We say it for an hour, or for years;

We say it smiling, say it choked with tears;

We say it coldly, say it with a kiss,

And yet we have no other word than this-

Good-bye!"

COLONEL STEWART'S very natural mistake in confusing the namesakes, and Isobel's equal error in believing her grandfather to be Colonel Smith, were soon explained.