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Feords were required, the stranger's height and length of arms did

all that was needful, and Don was placed in safety with less pain and

outcry than could have been hoped, Rachel ascending before the polite

stranger had tireed

with Rachel, a broken leg, and his offer of carrying it home could not

be refused, especially as he touched it with re that with a splint or two, he thought he had surgery

enough to set the limb

They were much nearer the Horeed that Bessie should breakfast there, the three bent

their steps up the hill as fast as ht be, in consideration of Mrs

Curtis's anxieties Bessie in a state of great exultation and amusement

at the romantic adventure, Rachel soed her to be beholden to one of the casual visitors,

against whoentleman himself was far from objectionable, in appearance

or manner; his air was that of an educated e, his face keen Rachel remembered to have met him

once or twice in the toithin the last few days, and wondered if he

could be a person who had called in at the lace school and asked so many

questions that Mrs Kelland had decided that he could be after no good;

he must be one of the Parliament folks that they sent down to take the

bread out of children's ood for the in a Governrievances, Rachel was still prepared to greet a kindred

spirit of philanthropy, and as she reflected ht that perhaps

it ell that an introduction had been procured on any terms

So she thawed a little, and did not leave all the civility to Miss

Keith, but graciously responded to the stranger's ads of the suround, and the walks so well laid out on the little

headland, now on s slopes ith fern

and mountain ash, now amid luxuriant exotic shrubs that attested the

mildness of Avonmouth winters