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A July len was filled with sunlight, though as yet there seemed no sun Behind a peak of hill it displayed its chastened htness had sought the nooks of valley in all the wide uplands, courier of the great lord of heat and light and the brown suh in a crinkle of hill, with a background of dark pines, and in front a lake, set in shores of rock and heather When the world grew bright Leoke, for that strange youngearly, and as he rubbed sleep frooodliness of theHe roused his co a corridor till he came to a low verandah, whence a little pier ran into a sheltered bay of the loch This was his h ed into the cold blue waters scarcely a second after his host

It was as chill as winter save for the brightness of the old As they raced each other to the far end, now in the dark blue of shade, now in the gold of the open, the hill breeze fanned their hair, and the great woody smell of pines eet around them The house stood dark and silent, for the side before theiven up to themselves; but away beyond, the s in some field on the hillside, and the cry of sheep ca coast of fine hill gravel, and as they turned to swiered down the pier and stuasped George, "there's old John He'll drown, for I bet you anything he isn't awake Look!"

But in a second a dark head appeared which shook itself vigorously, and a figure reat strokes He was by so much the best swih in all honesty he first swam to the farther shore, yet he touched the pier very little behind them Then came a rush for the house, and in half an hour three fresh-coloured youngfor breakfast