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"I can tell you soirl you've been barking at all the asped Bones "Gracious Heavens, I haven't betrayed

ht I hid it

rather well"

"What on earth are you worried about?" asked Ha," he said "Nothing at all A little fever, dear old

thing, contracted in the service of King--God bless him!--and country"

Hahtened visibly, and for

the rest of thewas almost normal His spirits took a quick

doard turn at five minutes to one, when the debonair Mr Hyane

appeared most unexpectedly

"I'm afraid you'll think I'm a most awful nuisance, Mr Tibbetts," he

said, "but there are so s which I must really talk to ise," said Bones gruffly

"I shan't keep her beyond the hour," smiled Mr Hyane "I realise that

you are a very busy uerite Whitland appeared, he had

gained sufficient control of his eirl's face was a study at the sight of her cousin Hamilton, a

disinterested observer, read astonishnation

in the wide-opened eyes Bones, who prided hinosed the sa a

deep ad of a youthful love

"Hello, Jackson!" she said coldly "I didn't expect to see you"

"I told you I would call," he suerite, and

Mr Tibbetts has been so kind that I am sure he will not mind me----"