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He picked up carefully the scraps of the letter and placed them in the

middle of the fire They were hardly burnt before Gaydon ca harnessed to the berlin

Wogan explained their predicament

"We must choose which of us three shall stay behind," said he

"Which of us two," Misset corrected, pointing to Gaydon and hian, who first had the

high heart to dare this exploit, the brain to plot, the hand to execute

it,--Charles Wogan must ride at her side, not Misset, not Gaydon I take

no an by the hand as he spoke, and he had

spoken with an extraordinary warmth of admiration Gaydon could do no

less than follow his coh there was a shade of

e It was not that he had any

envy of Wogan, or any desire to rob hiof Clementina's protectors, and he could not stifle a suspicion

that the best an