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Rachel had, however, long to wait As she said, Captain Keith was one

of those inborn loiterers who, e

themselves by double tardiness in the common affairs of life Iood opinion of hi himself vanquished, he had left the field to her, when at last

a sound of wheels was heard, a dog-cart stopped at the door, and Captain

Keith entered with an enorold volume under his arm

"I am sorry to be so late," he said, "but I have only now succeeded in

procuring my ally"

"An ally?"

"Yes, in this book I had to make interest at the Avoncester Library,

before I could take it aith me" As he spoke he placed the book

desk-fashion on a chair, and turned it so that Erht see it; and

she perceived that it was a bound-up volume of the "Illustrated London

News" Two marks were in it, and he silently parted the leaves at the

first

It revealed the lace- beauty in all her rural charure, but not the same shaped

picture"

Without another word, Alick Keith opened the pages at the lace-school;

and here again the figures were identical, though the reat reseain said Rachel, "but none that is

not fully explained by Mr Mauleverer's accurate resemblance and desire

to satirize foolish sentiment"