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Here, too, come, every year, the Wolfers In fact, to sum it up, the

party is composed of Nell's and Drake's dearest and tried friends, and

they one and all have grown to love Shorne Mills almost as keenly as

Nell and Drake thelemere, and the other

places which her husband has inherited, but there is a certain corner in

her heart which is reserved for the little fishing place in which she

first saw, and learned to love, "Drake Vernon"

Watch theo down the steep and narroay to the pier It is a

July evening; the sun is still bright, but the shadows are casting a

purple tint on the hills beyond theboats are gliding in like "painted ships on a

painted ocean"; the tinkle of the cow bells uilleull_ lies at anchor in the bay

ready to sail at a hy as Nell and he reach the pier, for, though they are going for a

sail, it is not in the stately yacht

By the slip lies an old herring boat, with _Annie Laurie_ painted on its

stern, and Brownie has got the sail up and stands waiting with a smile

to help his beloved "Miss Nell" into the old boat Nell lays her hand

upon his shoulder as of old, and steps in and takes the tiller; Drake