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"_She_ dropped it!" I repeated "What she? Why, you old tow-head,

have you been flirting at this hour of the ?"

"Handsome as a picture!"

"Ha! the ideal at last,"--ironically "Blonde, of course"

"Dark as a Spaniard, and rides like Diana" His enthusiashtly passed over

"Never heard of Diana riding," said I; "always saw her pictured as

going afoot"

"Don't be an ass! You know very hat I ument to offer, nor any picture to prove ive it up, every bit of it"

"One of the finest horsewoh

the other , just to see if I dared follow Lucky Dandy is a

hunter, or I'd have broken ht flashed through ain "Anybody with her?"

"Only et as far as naarde von Heideloff?"

"Heideloff?" I was puzzled My suspicions evaporated "I can't say

that I know any one by that name Sure it was Heideloff?"

"Do you mean to tell me," with blank astonishment, "that there is a

petticoat on horseback in this duchy that you do not know?"