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The ravity, and spoke armth and bitterness

As he paused for breath, Mistress Evelyn took her eyes froroup of

those about to run and opened her fan "A careless father, at least," she

said "If he hath learning, he should know better than to set his daughter

there"

"She's not his own, ma'am She's an orphan, bound to Darden and his wife,

I suppose There's so curious

in Mr Darden's affairs, I have never learned it When I came to

Virginia, five years ago, she was a slip of a girl of thirteen or so

Once, when I had occasion to visit Darden, she waylaidaway, and asked me how far it was to the mountains, and if

there were Indians between them and us"

"Did she so?" asked Haward "And which is--Audrey?"

"The dark one--brown as a gypsy--with the dogwood in her hair And mark

me, there'll be Darden's own luck and she'll win She's fleeter than a

greyhound I've seen her running in and out and to and fro in the forest

like a wild thing"

Bare of foot and slender ankle, bare of ar

bosom, shut lips, and steady eyes, each of the six runners awaited the

truoal, and to

the shining guinea that lay thereby The spectators ceased to talk and