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"Each olden milestone,

Is the central point froateways of the world around him"

There are certain ood or evil, for that life; and May was Katherine Hyde's luck month It

was on a May afternoon that Hyde had asked her love; it was on a May

night she fled with hiray shadows of the one by, and it was May once ic of the s, the cool, woody smell of wall-flowers, and the ethereal

perfume of lilies

In Hyde Manor House, there was that stir of preparation which indicates

a departure The house was before ti;

the atered

around, and gave the idea of haste and change, and departure froular custom It was, indeed, an hour before the usual breakfast-tiether Hyde was in

full uniform, his sword at his side, his cavalry cap and cloak on a

chair near hiravelled walk before thehis horse

"I must see what is theand pawing! And if Park loses control of hireatly inconvenienced for both horse and time"

The remark was partially the excuse of a o,