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"Father, do you reallyto do I must see that all is as Mostyn says I must not let you throw your money away"

"That is only prudent," said Ruth, "and we can be ready for the first stea to see England;to see Rawdon I did not know until this moment how much I loved it"

"Well, then, I will have all ready for us to sail next Saturday Say nothing about it to Mostyn He will call to- for Newport with McLean Try and be out"

"I shall certainly be out," said Ethel "I do not wish ever to see his face again, and Ito do"

"I dare say she guesses already She advised e She knehat you would say"

"Father, who are the Tyrrel-Rawdons?"

Then the Judge told the story of the young Tyrrel-Rawdon, who a century ago had lost his world for Love, and Ethel said "she liked him better than any Rawdon she had ever heard of"

"Except your father, Ethel"

"Except lad that Love did not always make them poor They must now be rich, if they want to buy the Court"

"They are rich un to notice therandsons of the Tyrrel-Rawdons, disinherited for love's sake, carandmother if this story was true She said it is quite true; that my father was his friend in the matter, and that it was his reports about America which made them decide to try their fortune in New York"

"Does she knohat became of him?"

"No In his last letter to theold fields of California That was in 1850 He never wrote again It is likely he perished on the terrible journey across the plains Many thousands did"

"When I aland I intend to call upon these Tyrrel-Rawdons I think I shall like theoes out to them I am proud of this bit of romance in the family"