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Now and then Captain Anthony ran down; but as the station was a real

wayside one, with no earlytrains up, he could never stay for

more than the afternoon It appeared that he must sleep in town so as to

be early on board his ship The weather was nificent and whenever the

captain of the Ferndale was seen on a brilliant afternoon co down

the road Mr Smith would seize his stick and toddle off for a solitary

walk But whether he would get tired or because it gave hio away--or for so reason of his

own, he was always back before the hour of Anthony's departure On

approaching the cottage he would see generally "that rass in the orchard at soht out of the cottage's living rooht for the that his approach was

not disturbing a very intih a

silent hour or so, and then it would be tio Mr

Smith, perhaps from discretion, would casually vanish a h the dia look outside the gate at the invisible Flora,

lift his hat, like a caller, and go off down the road Then only Mr