Chapter 18 MATTIE, MEDIATRIX.

Harriet Wesden was strangely afraid of the old lover-what he would say to her in the first moments of meeting, whether he would speak of the past in which she had been misjudged, of the present hour which had brought them face to face, or of the future for them both, and what it would be like from that day.

She was afraid to speak, afraid to tru