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Myra gazed at her fiancé in wide-eyed amazement and consternation when

she heard the news

"Tony Standish, you must be blind and crazy!" she burst out

tempestuously "I won't come to Auchinleven if Don Carlos is to be one

of your house party I won't! Surely youlove to ht in front of your very nose, Tony He said he

would see to it that ere fellow-guests for the shooting--and now

you have invited him to Auchinleven!"

"I--er--I say, Myra, this is news to asted "You--er--you don't actuallylove to you in earnest? I can't i I h he is a foreigner, and he and I have becoood sport, and he does not strikethe

sort of chap ould poach on another fellow's preserves Really,

Myra, this is quite a shock!"

"If you are referring to me as your 'preserves,' Tony, Don Carlos has

certainly been poaching--or trying to poach," said Myra "He persists

inlove to me and refuses to be rebuffed, and he has repeatedly