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The nextthe new boarder waked at sunrise, and stood at aof his room on the upper floor of the farged, mist-draped olden light An indescribable luster seemed to breathe from every dew-laden stalk of cotton or corn, plant, vine, blade of grass and patch of succulent clover Cobwebs, woven in the night and bejeweled with dewdrops, festooned the boughs of the trees in the orchard and on the lawn From the barn-yard back of the far and squealing, coere , hens were clucking, roosters were crowing

"Saunders is right," Mostyn declared, enthusiastically "I don't bla so enuine life The other is insanity, crazy, competitive rave I must have two natures At this moment I feel as if I'd rather die than sweat and stew over invest, and yet I ain One word of Delbridge's lucky manipulations or old Mitchell's praise, and the fever would burn to my bones But I mustn't think of them if I am to benefit by this I must fill myself with this prilorious fancies of boyhood"

Finishing dressing, he descended the stairs to the hall below and passed through the open door to the veranda No one was in sight, but from the kitchen in the rear he heard the clatter of utensils and dishes, and s ham Already his appetite was sharpened as if by thedown to the grass, he turned round the house, co face to face upon Dolly, whom he had not yet seen, as she ca prettily "I did not think you would rise so early--at least, not on your first "

He eyed her almost in bewilder Could this full-blown rose of young woirl he had so lightly treated three years ago? What hair, what eyes, what palpitating, sinuous grace! She was fast recovering calnity about her which see