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"When you have written that which I have told you to write, say so,

Audrey," he co!"

Audrey came back to the present with a start, took up a pen, and drew the

standish nearer "'Answer of Gideon Darden, Minister of Fair View Parish,

in Virginia, to the several Queries contained in y in Virginia,'" she read, and poised

her pen in air

"Read out the questions," ordered Darden, "and write my answer to each in

the space beneath No blots, s

of your wo to a side table, be enerous draught of bombo; then, with the drink in his hand, walked

heavily across the uncarpeted floor to his arht as he sank into its leathern lap He put down the rum and water

with so unsteady a hand that the liquor spilled, and when he refilled his

pipe half the contents of his tobacco box showered down upon his frayed