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"Why do you wait?" pleaded Miriam "At sunset, I tell you It is now

near it Oh, no thanks! Do not stop for them, but hasten to them at

once"

He obeyed like one in a dream; but, before he had reached Semple's

store, he had fully realized the actual situation Se business He put his hand on him, and said, "Elder, no tilish soldier a duel are to

fight"

"Eh? Where? Who told you?"

"On the Kalchhook Hill Stay not for a moment's talk"

"Run for your father, Brao, and ask yourat me, but aith you I'll tak' twa o' on, and be there instanter God help me! God spare the lad!"

At that moment Neil and Hyde were on their road to the fatal spot Neil

had been gathering anger all day; Hyde, a vague regret The folly of

what they were going to do was clear to both; but Neil was doeful joy If there had

been any thought of an apology in Hyde's heart, he must have seen its

hopelessness in the white wrath of Neil's face, and the calm

deliberation hich he assumed and prepared for a fatal termination