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"Consolation, mam! For what--I say, I demand to know for what?"

"Loneliness, Jack!"

"Eh, Duchess,--what, ot my dear Clo, and the Bo'sun,

eh, mam--eh?"

"The Bo'sun, yes,--he smokes a pipe, but Cleone can't, so she looks

at the moon instead,--don't you dear?"

"The aze

earthwards on the instant "Why I,--I--the moon, indeed!"

"And she listens to the brook, Jack,--don't you, my dove?"

"Why, God-mother, I--the brook? Of course not!" said Cleone

"And, consequently, Jack, you er--"

"Eh!" cried the bewildered Captain, "what's all this, Duchess,--I say,

what d'ye hed the Duchess, "some women never know they're in

love until they've s But our sweet Clo, on the contrary--"

"Love!" snorted the Captain louder than ever, "now sink ot to do with Clo, eh, mam?"

"More than you think, Jack--ask her!"

But lo!the terrace

steps, a little hurriedly perhaps, yet inher Grace's i hand upon his

ar, also descended the