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"Nine!" she exclaiedy--"then I shall be late

for breakfast, and I'racious heavens!"

"What now, madam?"

"My hair! It's all co so ever since I--met you," Barnabas confessed

"Oh, have you! Then why didn't you tell me of it--and I've lost

nearly all my hairpins--and--oh dear! ill they think?"

"That it is the most beautiful hair in all the world, of course,"

said Barnabas She was already busy twisting it into a shining rope,

but here she paused to look up at hiht nimbus,

and with two hair-pins in her htfully, and then "Do you think so?"

she inquired, speaking over and round the hairpins as it were

"Yes," said Barnabas, steady-eyed; and iain, while with dexterous white fingers she began

to transform the rope into a coronet

"I' her head a tentative

shake, "though, fortunately, I haven't far to go"

"How far?" asked Barnabas

"To Annersley House, sir"

"Yes," said Barnabas, "that is very near--the glade yonder leads