Consider a family of circles which are passing through the point $( - 1,1 )$ and are tangent to $x -$ axis. If $( h , k )$ are the co-ordinates of the centre of the circles, then the set of values of $k$ is given by the interval\\
(1) $0 < \mathrm { k } < 1 / 2$\\
(2) $k \geq 1 / 2$\\
(3) $- 1 / 2 \leq k \leq 1 / 2$\\
(4) $k \leq 1 / 2$