CHAPTER XXIV.

A wise maxim maker has asserted that there can be no love between two women when both are young and pretty. As is usual with maxim makers, he was wrong, and Sylvia and Audrey proved him so. They were drawn toward each other by a mutual sympathy which acted with equal force. Sylvia had gone through the furnace of sorrow through which Audrey seemed now to be passing. But though Sylvia saw that something was troubling her newly-made friend, she did not ask for Audrey’s confidence, and Audrey did not give it. But notwi…