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She had just won a military steeplechase, and Vernon nodded assent

"You must persuade your sister to ride her," he said

As he spoke, he seated hie of the steep roadhich

led to the jetty

"Take the horses in," he said "I'll come up in a few minutes"

But the minutes ran into hours He looked out to sea with aover the past which see in the _Annie Laurie_ this

Then suddenly the past became the present There was a stir on the jetty

below him Voices--the voice of fashionable people, the voices of

"society"--rose in an indistinguishable sound to his ears He moved

uneasily, and refilled and lit the pipe that he had borrowed of Dick He

heard the footsteps of several persons cli the steep stairs One

seemed fas with

an air of preparation, of resignation

The voices came nearer, and presently one said: "I certainly, for one, decline to go any farther I think it is too

absurd to expect one to cli to see up there, is there?"

At the sound of the voice, clear and bell-like, yet languid, with the