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"It's all right," said the driver, as the dogcart swung neatly round an ugly turn "There's theoff the top of Etterick Law, and--why, that's the end of the Dreichill?"

"It's the Dreichill, and beyond it is the Little Muneraw Are you glad to be horavely "This is ets"

"I fancy so--with right-thinking people By the way, I have ies in this desert place have been often seeing your name in the newspapers lately You are a reat deal more of that than it deserved It was very sio out and do the saes, and if I coame and no chances is the rule of war And noill you do?"

"Settle down," said the youngup also I suppose it is what you would call the crucialin for politics, as I always intended, and for the rest I shall live a quiet country life at Etterick I've a wonderful talent for rusticity"

The Doctor shot an inquiring glance from beneath the flaps of his hat "I never can make upsince I gave up trying to make up my mind about myself"

"When you were a very small and very bad boy I made the usual prophecy that you would make a spoon or spoil a horn Later I declared you would oodness I knehat shape your spoon would take"

"Ornamental, Doctor, some odd fancy spoon, but not useful I feel an inner lack of usefulness"

"Hus are serious, Lewie, and I, as your elder, should give advice; but confound it, my dear, I cannot think what it should be Life has been too easy for you, a great deal too easy You want a little of the salt and iron of the world You are too clever ever to be conceited, and you are too good a fellow ever to be a fool, but apart froes which are not very happy"