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She broke into delighted laughter Of all women the most steadfast of soul, her outward reed!" she cried "You and the minister and Diccon Deela shall witch you into stone with her old, old than had King Midas; I will dance with the hamadryads; I will find out Oberon and make Titania jealous!"

"I do not doubt that you could do so," I said, as she sprang to her feet, childishly eager and radiantly beautiful

I rose to go in with her, for it was supper tied o in," I said "There's a snake near by, in those bushes below the bank I'll kill the creature, and then I'll coone, I walked to where, ten feet away, the bank dipped to a clump of reeds and s planted in theona ed to the bank beside me

It was my Lord Carnal's Italian doctor that I had so fished up I had seen hiure clad all in black, and his narrow face with lea to the sight as are certain reptiles to the touch

"There are no sist reeds and half-dros," I said "What did so learned a doctor look for in so unlikely a place?"

He shrugged his shoulders and made play with his clawlike hands, as if he understood ue were sufficiently acquainted I told hilance, but continued to shrug, gesticulate, and jabber in Italian At last I saw nothing better to do than to take hiarden next the churchyard, and with the toe of raves I watched hio away in the gathering dusk, winding in and out araves; and then I went in to supper, and told Mistress Percy that the snake was dead