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"He est--certainly In the meantime I shall be loyal to my own friends--and afterward, too," shecare like a ood to this poor young man then; I adore rows--and you'll have a few on your hands I'll warrant Let me remind you that your uncle can make it unpleasant for you yet, and that your amiable fiancé has a will of his own under his pompadour and silky beard"

"What a pity to have it clash with irl serenely

Mrs Ferrall looked at her: "Mercy on us! Howard's poht with horror if he could hear you! Don't be silly; don't for an i desirable on account of a --whose amiable exterior and prospective enerous sympathy in you"

"Do you suppose that I shall endure interference from anybody?--fro a mountain out of a mole-hill Don't be emotional; don't let loose impulses that you and I know about, knew about in our school years, know all about now, and which you and I have decided must be eliminated--"

"You mean subdued; they'll always be there"

"Very well; who cares, as long as you have the at one another, the excited colour cooling in the younger girl's cheeks, they laughed, one with relief, the other a little ashamed

"Kemp will be furious; I si toward the gun-roouely repentant, the consciousness dawning upon her that she had probably

"It's been so all day," she thought ierated; I've worked up a scene about a htest concern of lected Howard sha her errant feet, but it see her toward the neglected gentleman within; for presently she found herself at the breezy veranda door, looking rather fixedly at the stars

The stars, shining impartially upon the just and the unjust, illuminated the person of Siward, who sat alone, rather limply, one knee crossed above the other He looked up by chance, and, seeing her star-gazing in the doorway, straightened out and rose to his feet

Aware of him apparently for the first ti his advance half-way

"Would you care to go down to the rocks?" he asked "The surf is terrific"