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She sighed again, and stood, with her habit half unbuttoned, looking

beyond the glass into the past few happy weeks Yes, it would seeered on; his ar and

firrave and moody He rode or sailed with

her every day, Dick so the hour of his departure, and putting it away fro hand

One afternoon, Dick burst into the sitting room--they were at tea--with

a couple of parcels; one, a ser

and heavier one

"Just come by the carrier," he said; "addressed to 'Drake Vernon,

Esquire' The little one is registered The carrier acted as auxiliary

postned the paper absently, with a scrawl of the pen which Dick

brought hinature'Vernon'!"

Drake looked up frohtly

"Give it me back, please," he said, rather sharply "It isn't fair to

write so indistinctly"

Dick handed the receipt forh

the "Selbie" which he had scrawled unthinkingly, and wrote Drake Vernon

in its place