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The last bell of the steaotten herself, and what she was looking for In a fever of distress lest Owen should be left behind, she gathered up in her hand the corners of her handkerchief, containing specimens of the shells, plants, and fossils which the locality produced, started off to the sands, and ated froes, and hired conveyances that had returned from short drives inland They all went aboard by the pri assisted by a rope Cytherea lingered till the very last, reluctant to follow, and looking alternately at the boat and the valley behind Her delay provoked a remark fro from the ines are the propelling power

'Now then, missy, if you please I a for, miss?' 'My brother--he has walked a short distance inland; he must be here directly Could you wait for him--just a minute?' 'Really, I am afraid not, m'm' Cytherea looked at the stout, round-faced ht in her eyes so expressive of her own opinion being the sanation, too, that, fro able to prove hiht to be--works of supererogation are the only sacrifices that entice in this way--and that at a very sers began to murmur

'There, never mind,' said Cytherea decisively 'Go on withoutto leave you here all alone,' said the captain 'I certainly advise you not to wait' 'He's gone across to the railway station, for certain,' said another passenger

'No--here he is!' Cytherea said, regarding, as she spoke, the half hidden figure of apace down the ravine which lay between the heath and the shore

'He can't get here in less than five er said

'People should knohat they are about, and keep time Really, if--' 'You see, sir,' said the captain, in an apologetic undertone, 'since 'tis her brother, and she's all alone, 'tis only nater to wait awoht be, and had a brother, like this one, and you stood of an evening upon this here wild lonely shore, like her, why you'd want us to wait, too, wouldn't you, sir? I think you would' The person so hastily approaching had been lost to view during this re cliff immediately at hand covered the path in its rise His footsteps were now heard striking sharply upon the flinty road at a distance of about twenty or thirty yards, but still behind the escarpment