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"Keep up your courage, Mrs Cheniston" He laid his hand gently on her arm "I'll be back in an hour or so--and in the e, you will do exactly as I have told you" He had already given her full directions "Remember, no one but Mr Garnett and Hassan knows of my absence, so don't be surprised if I'm supposed to be asleep soht hand over his as he gently clasped her aro? Is Mr Wood too old?"

"No--but his heart is affected, and the clih he's behaved like a brick up to now, funks the cliood-naturedly conteivehim out--but his aro--and God be with you," she said very gently, and in her eyes Anstice saw once again the look of th and tenderness whose possibility he had divined long ago on the occasion of their firston the steps of Cherry Orchard

And with the words ringing in his ears he set forth upon his quest