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All the way up to town Drake felt very depressed It is strange that we

until we have lost it, or a

time until it has slipped past us; and Drake only realized, as the

express rushed along and took him farther and farther away from Shorne

Mills, how contented, and, yes, nearly happy, he had been there,

notwithstanding the pain and inconvenience of a broken liht of the little village in the

cleft of the cliffs, of the opaline sea, of the miniature jetty on which

he had so often sat and basked in the sunlight; but, , warm-hearted Dick, and--and of

Nell of Shorne Mills

It seemed hard to realize, and not a little painful, that he should

never again sit in the parlor which now see Chopin and Grieg; or ride beside her over the

yellow and purple moor; or lie coiled up at her feet as she sailed the

_Annie Laurie_

He began to suspect that he had taken a greater interest in her than he