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"Oh, but I' a convert,

I' specimen of your

country you have in Miss Lorton! I don't want to rob you of her, but do

you think you could spare her to co

there almost directly"

Lady Wolfer replied absently: "Yes, certainly; ask her It will not leford "Why, I should have thought you would

have suffered pangs at thewith her She is an

angel! Did you hear her sing just now? I don't knowher with theorously

"Ask her, by all means," she said "Oh, yes; of course I shall miss

her"

As she spoke, Sir Archie came toward her A faint flush rose to her

face Her eyes fell upon the white flower in his buttonhole

"Why--how----Is that my flower?" she said, in a low voice

"Yes," he replied "It is yours You dropped it, and I picked it up Has

any one a better right to it?"

She looked up at hiht to it," she said, in a low voice, which she tried in