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"You had better ask her," said Ormiston, bitterly "She seeht She would strew your

path with roses, forsooth! Nothing earthly, I believe, wouldhalf so tender to hed, and stroked his moustache complacently

"All a matter of taste, my dear fellow: and these woin to adive up the chase, and let host of a chance, Ormiston"

"I don't believe it myself," said Orue carries ive her up; and the sooner

that happens, the better Ha! what is this?"

It was a piercing shriek--no unusual sound; and as he spoke, the door of

an adjoining house was flung open, a wo street, and disappeared

Sir Norman and his companion looked at each other, and then at the

house

"What's all this about?" demanded Ormiston

"That's a question I can't take it upon myself to answer," said Sir

Noro in and see"

"It"Yet the house is not

marked There is a watchman I will ask him"