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"I suppose he was very oes without saying," replied Luce "Of course He was very fond

of me; or, why should he have asked me to marry him? You wouldn't ask

the question if you had seen him the day I broke with him I never saw a

man so cut up It ether on one side, dear?" said Lady Chesney

Lady Luce shrugged her white shoulders in eloquent silence

"Where did the dra take place?" asked Lady Chesney

"Here," said Lady Luce

"Here?"

"Well, near here At a little port--fishing place, called--I forget the

na Mills"

"Oh! you mean Shorne Mills"

Nell's discomfort increased, and yet a keen interest reluctantly awoke

in her It see to what seemed to her a

life's drama, the scene of which was pitched in Shorne Mills

"The yacht put in quite unexpectedly," continued Luce "I didn't want to

land at all, but Archie worriedso We clio any farther They went on, and I

turned into a kind of recess to rest--and found Drake there"