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"Pray, think of hihed, "you see--he

is only a boy--?" said Barnabas

"Just twenty, but younger than his age--er You see," she

went on hastily, "he went to London a boy--and--and he thought

Mr Chichester was his friend, and he lost much money at play, and,

somehow, put himself in Mr Chichester's power He is my half-brother,

really; but I--love him so, and I've tried to take care of hier than he--and--and so I would have you

think of hienerously as you can"

"Yes," said Barnabas, "yes" But now she stopped again so that he

must needs stop too, and when she spoke her soft voice thrilled with

a new intensity

"Will you doto London--will you seek him out,

will you try to--save him from himself? Will you pro the passionate entreaty in her eyes, feeling it in the

twitching fingers upon his arm, Barnabas suddenly laid his own above

that slender hand, and took it into his warm clasp

"My lady," said he, solemnly, "I will" As he spoke he stooped his

head low and lower, until she felt his lips war, silent pressure, and yet her hand was not withdrawn

Now although Barnabas had clean forgotten the rules and precepts set

down in the "priceless wolluraceful ease

which could not have been bettered--no, not even by the Person of