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And alas! All happy dreah Allan's was dissipated by a

sound of suppressed weeping He looked cautiously around, and on the

clean, brown ground beneath the pines, a little in advance of hiainst the trunk of a large tree, her face

was turned quite away from him, but he kneas Mary Campbell And

softly and hurriedly he retraced his own steps for some distance, and then

he found the wall, and leaped into the highway, and walked hohly awake and disenchanted

He did not antly

dressed, her face clear and bright, her entle

and yet cheerful

"The sphinx," thought Allan, "is some inscrutable wo he had heard in the wood, the

bowed head, the unrief, and then he looked at

Mary's face dilistening silk and gold ornaht, she made him

feel that she was the head of the House of Campbell, and the heiress of

Drumloch

The next day was the Sabbath She was very particular about her religious

duties; she went to kirk twice, she had the servants in the evening for