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"If I took service with the rebels," said I, "it would not be because of personal loss Nor would that sae The reat cause When I have leisure I can satisfy personal quarrels"

"Lord!" laughed Sir Peter, "to hear you bewail your lack of leisure one ht think you are now occupied with one cause or t'other Pray, my dear Carus, when do you expect to find time to call out these ene of Walter Butler's services, would you?" I asked so gravely that everybody laughed, and we rose in good hu-roolish built, yet bore certain traces of the old Dutch influence, for it had a stoop leading to the front door, and the roof was Dutch, save for the cupola; a fine wide house, the façade a little scorched froration of '78 which had ruined Trinity Church and the Lutheran, and s and homes

The house was divided by a wide hallway, on either side of which were drawing-roo on a conservatory which overlooked the gardens The ground floor served as a servant's hall, with a door at the area and another in the rear leading out through the garden-drive to the stables

The floor above the drawing-rooold leather and blue for Sir Peter and his lady, the other in criuests The third floor,the Wall Street side, s on that fashionable street and also on Broadway

Thus it happened that, instead of entering the south drawing-roo Pharaoh, I turned to the right and crossed the north, or "state drawing-roo across Broadway to see if I ht spy my friend the drover and his withered little mate No doubt prudence and a dislike for the patrol kept theh a few street lamps were lit and I couldthere in the dihted room, my nose between the parted curtains, I heard , beheld Miss Grey, half lying on a sofa in a distant corner I had not seen her when I entered,pardon for an unintentional rudeness--which she pardoned with a s her scented fan