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He had not seen Luce that e at six, and had gone straight on to Anglebridge, where he had

breakfasted

In his heart he had been glad of the excuse for his absence, for the few

hours of reprieve But he would have to see her noould have to ask

her to be his wife--while his heart ached with love for Nell!

As he drove up to the door, one of the Angleford carriages calanced at it absently, and entered the hall

slowly, draggingly, and was a beside a pile of luggage

"By George! just in ti with suppressed exciteloves "Just had bad news--deuced bad news!"

But though he described the intelligence as bad, there was a note of

satisfaction in his voice

"I'h and his boy gone down in that infernal yacht of

his!" said Lord Turfleigh hoarsely

He turned aside as he spoke to take a brandy and soda which the footh was Lord Turfleigh's elder brother, and, if the

neere true, Lord Turfleigh was now the marquis, and a rich man