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"And what becalishirl more kind to him"

"I wonder what made Mr Van Ariens tell you this story?"

"He talkedlady was her chief friend and confidante"

"When did it happen?"

"A few days after his sister's e"

"Then the Marquise could not know of it; and so she could not have told her brother However in the world could he have found out the irl herself found it out?"

"That is inconceivable," answered Mary "She would have written to her lover and explained the affair"

"Certainly It is a very singular incident I want to think it over-- how--did--Mr Van Ariens--find--it--out, I wonder!"

"Perhaps the rejected lover confided in him"

"But why did not the rejected lover send the letter he received--and which he ht to retain--to Miss Moran, or to the Englishman for whom it was intended? A man who could keep a letter like that,devil in his body A bad man, Mary, a bad man--the air must be unclean in any roory you are Let us drop the subject I really do want to tell you soht"

"What did Mr Van Ariens say about the matter? What did he think? Why did he tell you?"

"We were talking of the Marquise The story came up quite naturally I think Mr Van Ariens felt very sorry for Miss Moran Of course he did Will you listen to Captain Seabright's letter? I had no idea it could affect me so much"

"But you loved him once?"

"Very dearly"

"Well then, Mary, I think no one has a double in love or friendship If the loved one dies, or goes away, his place res that he, and he only, could call up"

At this point in the conversation Hyde entered, brown and wind-blown, the scent of the sedgy water and the flooods about hiayly, "I have brea to the rectory"

"Poor little fish!" answered Annie "They could not cry out, or plead with you, or beg for their lives, and because they were duled to death"

"Don't say such things, Annie How can I enjoy ht to enjoy sport which is h? I have heard you say nothing that floats on fresh water, can beat a Norfolk wherry"