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"And which is Lucy's? Can it be

That puny fop, armed cap-a-pie,

Who loves in the saloon to show

The arms that never knew a foe"--SCOTT

"My lady's coed if you

would remain till she coone to Avoncester with Master Temple and Master Francis"

"Gone to Avoncester!" exclaimed Rachel, who had walked from church to

Myrtleith Alison

"Maone toupon the round, "Not the

major, he is lieutenant-colonel now--Colonel Keith, hurrah!"

"What--what do you mean? Speak rationally, Leoline, if you can"

"My lady sent a note to the Ho," explained Coo that Colonel Keith intended to arrive to-day,

and took the young gentlemen with her toher displeasure, and

bluntly asked what time Lady Temple was likely to be at home

"It depended," Coombe said, "upon the train; it was not certain whether

Colonel Keith would cooing to turn sharply round, and dash hos, when Alison arrested her with the question-"And who is Colonel Keith?"

Rachel was tooof

the voice, and answered, "Colonel Keith! why, the Major! You have not

been here so long without hearing of the Major?"

"Yes, but I did not know Who is he?" And a asping effort to veil her eagerness under her

wonted self-control

"Don't you knoho the Major is?" shouted Leoline "He is our e," said Rachel, "I don't understand

his influence, nor knohere he was picked up"

"Nor his regiimental officer; he is on our staff," said Leoline,

whose iination could not attain to an earlier condition than "on our

staff"

"I shall go home, then," said Rachel, "and see if there is any

explanation there"

"I shall ask the Major not to let Aunt Rachel come here," observed