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"About the ray horse too Drat the ray horse! It be that unlucky, as no one in their

seven senses would do it"

"For sure it be! When I was a young wench at school"--and then, as she

folded up the loose ribbons, Letty told a gruesome story of a farray horse played

in the tale, Katherine sloalked into the room, with a letter in her

hand She hite, even to her lips; and with a irls to leave her alone She put the paper

out of her hand, and stood regarding it Fully ten th sufficient to break its well-known seal, and take

in the full ht, beloved Katherine, and in six hours I et spoke of my cousin to me in such terms as leaves but one way out

of the affront I pray you, if you can, to pardon me The world will

condemn me, my own actions will condemn me; and yet I vow that you, and

you only, have ever had my love You I shall adore with ive e hands, I

shall be dead or dying My will and papers of importance are in the

drawer marked "B" in my escritoire Kiss ht"

These words she read, then wrung her hands, and moaned like a creature

that had been wounded to death Oh, the sha and sorrow!

How could she bear it? What should she do? Captain Lennox, who had