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"Ah! dear That reply is, after all, but natural You, of course, won't confess the truth," her lad the fellow has gone I hate his superciliousHe's simply odious! That's my opinion"

Her mother looked at her severely across the table

"Please reet that," said the girl ly, as she rose and left the table

Half an hour later, when she entered her bedroo her

"Oh! I've been waiting to see you this half hour, ht o'clock, as I was about to enter the park by the side gate near Bervie Farentleman approached me and asked if ave aveabout it" And the pri mistress a s it, she found a plain visiting card which bore the words in a : "Would it be possible for you to iven this to your ent--SILVERADO"

Dorise held her breath It was a ht her out at the bal blanc at Nice, and told her of Hugh's peril!

Duncan was naturally curious owing to the effect the card had had upon her mistress, but she was too well trained to make any comment Instead, she busied herself at the wardrobe, and a few mo cheval glass, the card still in her hand

What did it mean? Why was the mysterious white cavalier in Scotland? At least she would now be able to see his face It was past nine, and theShe had still more than half an hour before she went forth to -roo over a couple of songs as a cae, she pretended to be tired and announced her intention of retiring

"We have to go into Edinburgh to-," her mother remarked "So we should start pretty early I've ordered the car for nine o'clock"

"All right, irl as she closed the door

Then hastening to her roo on a coat and skirt and the boots which she had hen fishing that reat old library, with its thousands of brown-backed volulen, now a veritable fairyland beneath the light of the moon