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She remembered also that she could write to Allan There was a bare chance

that he er a few days in

Fife But although she was ignorant of the action which David had taken

with regard to Janet Caird, she never thought of addressing the letter to

her care For a moment she hesitated between Willie Johnson and Elder

Mackelvine, but finally chose the forreat friends, and she was certain if Allan went to Pittenloch he would

not leave the village without seeing his old boatthe case in which she found herself, and

begging him to come to Drumloch and say a word of kindness to her When

she folded and sealed it, she thought with pleasure of Allan's

astonishht at her i, as well as she could, the distance, the tie

As it happened, he just ie's own fault If she

had trusted it to the Dru and servant it would have reached

Dalry on the twenty-ninth; and on that day Willie Johnson was in the

post-village, and received several letters lying there for himself and

others in Pittenloch But when, in our anxiety, we trust to our own

judg which, for lack of a better naood fortune, we are usually, and perhaps justly, deserted by good