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"Oui, Monsieur," returned Paul, "Monsieur Stephens is a very great

favourite with our faation to him that it

will be difficult ever to repay"

"Whence coly sneer,

"and how has he placed you under such an obligation?" Then,

reflecting that he was showing a bitterness respecting the young man

which he could neither explain nor justify, he said: '"Mais, pardonnez- these questions

When pretty eyes are ealected one

to knoay fortune has been

kind with his rival"

"Shall I tell the whole story, Annette" enquired Paul, or will you

do so?"

"O, I know that you will not leave anything out that can show the

bravery of Mr Stephens," replied the girl

"Well, last spring, Annette was spending some days with her aunt, a

few miles up Red River It was the flood time, and as you reher than it had ever reached

within the memory of any body in the settlement Annette is

ventureso upon

boats, or paddling a canoe; so, one day, during the visit which I

havein a little pond,

for of the

streaan

to paddle about in the lazy water Presently she reached the eddies,

which, since a child, she has always called the 'rings of the

water-witches,' wherever she learned that ter in the doorway as she saw Annette move off, and she cried

out to her to beware of the eddies; but my sister, ard and

reckless as it is her habit to be in such h; and then as the canoe began to turn round and round in

the gurgling circles she cried out

"I as of the water-witches C'est bon! bon! C'est

nifique! O I wish you ith o round and round" A little way beyond, not , the full tide of the

river

"Beware, Annette, beware, for the love of heaven, of the river If

you get a little further out, and these eddiesyou out, you

will be in the mad current, and no arm can paddle the canoe to land

out of the flood Then, dear, there is the fall below, and the fans