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"The Earl!" ejaculated the Captain

Mr Crowe had been unable to refrain his tongue from the delicious title, but now corrected hiive you a farthing, and any letter asking for anything ether" The Captain vainly endeavoured to make better terms, and of course accepted those proposed to him He would live in Paris,--dear Paris He took five pounds for his journey, and naent for the transmission of his money

And so Fred Neville was the Earl of Scroope He had still one other task to perfors in some shape to Ardkill of what had happened As he returned to the barracks froht wholly of this That other ed As one item of the cost of his adventure in County Clare he must pay two hundred a year to that reprobate, the Captain, as long as the reprobate chose to live,--and must also pay Mr Crowe's bill for his assistance This was a sreat, and he was not a man by nature inning of his life Though he had declared himself to be quite indifferent on that head, he did feel that the arrangeether reputable,--that it was one which he could not explain to his own ive hie for the ladies at Ardkill,--especially to the lady whoe he had found arer for the reception of her husband And as he returned back to the barracks it occurred to hiht be better than a letter "Si man's bed-room, "have you heard what has happened to me?" Simpkinson had heard all about it, and expressed himself as "deucedly sorry" for the old ht be consolation for that sorrow "I o to Scroope immediately," said Neville "I have explained it all to Johnstone, and shall start alet an hour's sleep I want you to do so for"I cut up a little rough just nohen you mentioned Miss O'Hara's name" Simpkinson declared that he did not ain as long as he lived "But I want you to go and see her to-ht in bed