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"And Una--did you leave her with Grace?"

"No, she trotted down hand in hand with his little lordship: pro

to lead her uncle back"

"My dear Alick, you don't mean that you trust to that?"

"Why, hardly implicitly"

"Is that the way you say so? They may be both over the cliffs If you

will just stay in the rooo down and fetch them up"

Alick very obediently held out his arms for his son, but when Rachel

proceeded to take up her hat, he added, "You have rundown as soon as my uncle has had ti hunted"

"Does he know that?"

"The Colonel does, which coe that little Keith hen you gave hier and heavier he

is!"

"Hardly, considering your objections to fine children"

"Oh, that was only to coarse, over-grown ones Una is really quite as

tall as little Keith, and ame at all, and she was all life and enjoyment, with no notion of

shyness"