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And in the midst of the De Lancey laan to listen for the shutting of the garden gate, and the sound of Hyde's step upon the flagged walk It did not come as soon as she hoped it would, and the ht struck Then the doctor was gloo a word or two, and relapsing again into semi-unconsciousness She felt that the favourable hour had passed, and now the minutes went far too quickly Why did he net co laborious stitches by a drawn thread--she sat listening with all her being The street itself was strangely silent, no one passed, and the fitful talk at the fireside seeh she did not inquire of her heart what it was, of what it ht her mother's eyes, and the trouble and question in theo through her heart At nine the watching becao to bed I am tired;" but she put aith her usual neatness her work, and her spools of thread, her thimble and her scissors Her hly He stood up, stretched his arms outward and upward, and said "he believed he had been sleeping, and must ask their pardon for his indifference" And then he walked to theand looking out added "It is a lovely night but the moon looks like storot to tell you that I heard a strange report to-day, nothing less than that General Hyde returned on the Mary Pell thiswith hiirl, then, a little mite of a creature Mrs Davy told e which took them to Hyde Manor"

"And how should Mrs Davy know?"

"The Davys live next door to the Pells, and the servants of one house carried the news to the other house She said the General sent to his son's lodging to see if he was in town, but he was not It was then only eight o'clock in the "

"How unlikely such a story is! Do you believe it?"

"Ask to-morrow As for me, I neither know nor care That is the report Who can tell what the Hydes will do?"