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Late summer on the Norfolk Broads! And where on earth can the lover of boats find aare the mysterious entrances to these Broads! where a boat seems to make an insane dive into a hopeless cul de sac of a ditch, and then suddenly e with pike and brearound, full of reeds and s and flowering flags; and alive ater fowl

Now close to the Manor of Hyde, the country hohtful Broads--flat as a billiard table, and hidden by the tall reeds which bordered it But Annie Hyde lying at the openof her room in the Manor House could see its silvery waters, and the black-sailed wherry floating on the, auors of these hot summer days Her hands were folded, her lips race and favour for one as dearer to her than her own life or happiness

An aged man sat silently by her, a man of noble beauty, whose soul was in every part of his body, expressive and impressive--a fiery particle not always at its , but when there, infecting and going through observers, whether they would or not He was dressed altogether in black, and had fine small hands, a thin austere face and clean sensitive lips which sees and priests"--a s at their eternal, not at their temporal worth

There had been silence for some time between theed for him to do so, because she had a s, and was never so happy and soto her of them For she loved God, and had been led to the love of God by a kind of thirst for God

"Dear father," she said finally, "I have been thinking of the past years, in which you have taught me so much"

"It is better to look forward, Annie," he answered "The traveller to Eternity must not continually turn back to count his steps; for if God be leading hierous or lonely the road, 'He will pluck thy feet out of the net'"

"Even in the valley of death?"

"'BE NOT AFRAID! NOTHING OF THEE WILL DIE!"' Take these sweet co bed of Joseph, His father, into thy heart Blessed are the hoet home"