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"We were having some people to dinner," said the anxious sister of

Captain Anthony

She had heard the front door bell and wondered what it ed to whisper to her without attracting attention The

servants had been frightened by the invasion of that wild girl in ato her pale cheeks But they

had seen her before This was not the first occasion, nor yet the last

Directly she could slip away frouests Mrs Fyne ran upstairs

"I found her in the night nursery crouching on the floor, her head

resting on the cot of the youngest ofat her across the roo there Mrs Fyne raised her up, took her

over to Mr Fyne's little dressing-roo,

to a fire by which she could dry herself, and left her there She had to

go back to her guests

A reeable surprise it must have been to the Fynes Afterwards

they both went up and interviewed the girl She jumped up at their

entrance She had shaken her dae

I can i,

sole to the irl,

and, fortunately, there was a bed which could be -room

"But--what could one do after all!" concluded Mrs Fyne