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So there would be little coyle

Street to the Candleriggs; and he went to his hotel and ordered dinner,

then back to his father, and begged him to come and spend the last hours

of his delay with hio

tapsalteerie, Allan, but let theether" It was a very pleasant bite and cup, seasoned with

much love, and th, left

the dreary precincts of the old Caledonian Station, the last thing he saw

was his father's bare, white head, and that courtly upwardor adieu; a entlear ow for the next three days, and Mary was

lonely enough at Meriton It was a little earlier than they usually

rean to make preparations for that

event In the course of these preparations, it was necessary to inspect

the condition of Allan's apartments How desolate and forsaken they

looked! No other rooh they had been in the sarates, the covered furniture, the closed blinds, the absence of all the

little attributes of masculine life--pipes, slippers, newspapers, etc--

were painfully apparent

But no one had touched any of the nuie They were

on the wall, the lanced at them, and