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"Your mother was Russian, was she not?" Lewis asked tactlessly, impelled by he knew not what motive

"Ah, how did you know?" Mr Marker s of the eyebrows "I have indeed the blood of many nationalities in my veins Would that I were equally familiar with all nations, for I know less of Russia than I know of Scotland We in Gerhbours, and love the less than ourselves"

He talked English with that pleasing sincerity which seeners, who use a purer and e looked anxiously towards Leith a question in his eyes, but finding his companion abstracted, he spoke himself

"I have just arrived," said the other simply; "but it was froetting cool air into an, I have been down to Rawal Pindi since I saw you last, and have been choked with the sun We northerners do not take kindly to glare and dust"

"But you are an old hand here, they tell me I wish you'd show norant as a babe What sort of rifles do they use here? I wish you'd coed into technicalities

When Lewis rose to leave, following unwillingly the convention which forbids a guest to stay more than five minutes after a new visitor has arrived, Marker crossed the rooht, Mr Haystoun, will you do ht ladly, and with one of his sweetest san's side