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Mr and Mrs Stagg saw their minions depart, and then themselves left the

little white house in Palace Street Mistress Deborah ith theht of an Indian," said the minister's

wife indifferently "Besides, Darden will be here from the church

presently, and he y canfive when Haward entered the garden by the

Nicholson Street gate There had arisen a zephyr of the evening, to loosen

the yellow locust leaves and send theers upon his forehead that burned, and to whisper low at his ear

House and garden and silent street seemed asleep in the late sunshine,

safe folded froed in the field on the border

of the town Distance ed the screae cries, bursts of applause and

laughter,--all came softly, blent like the huht There was no one in the surape arbor, and found there a black girl, who pointed to an open

door, pertaining not to the small white house, but to that portion of the

theatre which abutted upon the garden Haward, passing aof Mr

Stagg's doed with a

great book and a tankard of sack He made no pause for the vision, and

another ht entered in at the door and at one high , but yet the

place was diallery and the rude boxes were all in shadow; the

sunbeah