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"And how did you co near?"

"I ca's train," he said, "and I walked over; e follows by the carrier I enjoyed the walk"

"You ladness "Malad to see you!"

"They haven't forgotten ain

"They have talked of very little else but you, since you have been gone,

and Dick is like a boy who has lost a schoolfellow"

She said it so frankly that Drake's heart sank

"Well--I've thought--I'veover the

sentence "Shorne Mills is, as you said, not the kind of place one

forgets in a hurry"

"Did I say that?" she asked "I don't remember it"

"Ah! but I do," he said "I remember----"

"Hadn't we better walk on?" she said "You "

He see, and

they walked on

Her heart was still beating fast--beating with a new and strange