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The dinghy took hie and crowded

hotel, and spent the evening wishing that he was on the _Seagull_ The

next day it occurred to hilemere, and

he procured a horse and rode out to it He had very little desire to see

the chief of his "places," and when he had ridden up to the terrace he

turned his horse down a side road and regained his hotel, little

thinking that he had passed theof Nell's rooht of the old place had awakened memories which saddened him He

had played on that terrace, on the lawn beneath, when a boy Even as a

boy he had learned to regard Anglemere as his future home; and he had

been, in a childish way, proud of the fact It was his now--and what

little pride and pleasure could be found in its possession! If

Nell----With sorandiose

stairs of the hotel, and went to bed

In the ht hileford It said that she had heard that he had arrived at