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at Westover"

She rose froer clasped

each other,--that impulse was past,--but their eyes met in sorrowful

amity Audrey shook her head "That o away that we may not both be unhappy" She lifted her face to the cloud

in the south, "I alht When you drown, there is at first

fear and struggling, but at last it is like dreaht, 'It is the air of the

o noill

slip froh the fields into the woods, and none will

know"-But Evelyn caught her by the wrist "You are beside yourself! I would

rouse the plantation; in an hour you would be found Stay with me!"

A knock at the door, and the Colonel's secretary, a pale and grave young

on the threshold He was just come fro wo The Colonel, supposing that by now she was recovered fro certain questions to

put to her, desired her to descend to the parlor Hearing voices in

Mistress Evelyn's room-"Very well, Mr Drew," said the lady "You need not wait I will uest"