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"Papa, it is not true, I think"

"It is well attested, Daisy"

"By whom?"

"By a friend of Miss St Clair, ith her in Washington

and knew the whole progress of the affair, and testifies to

their being engaged"

"To whose being engaged, papa?"

"Miss St Clair and your friend, - Colonel Soet

his nah you told me, I believe"

"He was not a colonel, papa; not at all; not near it"

"No He has been promoted, I understand Promotions are rapid

in the Northern arulars

is transformed easily into a colonel of volunteers They want

ot, I suppose"

I re

"Who told you all this, papa?"

"Your mother She has it direct from the friend of your

rival"

"But, papa, nobody knew about me It was kept entirely

private"

"Not after you came away, I suppose How else should this

story be told as of the gentleetto papa Once he interrupted me to

say, "Daisy, how do you take this that I have been telling