CHAPTER XII.

"Most sacrilegious murder hath broke ope The Lord’s anointed temple, and stole thence The life o’ the building." The breakfast table at the San Rosario Ranch was usually a merry one; but on the morning after what Hal had called Millicent’s "magnetic exhibition," the usual good spirits were missing. Millicent took her accustomed place at Deering’s side; and Galbraith marked the extraordinary change which she had suffered since she had bade him good-night the evening before. Her face had blanched to a whiten…