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Mrs Caffyn was unhappy, and made up her mind that she would talk to

Frank herself She had learned enough about him from the two

sisters, especially froee The difficulty

was to see hie At last she

determined to write to him, and she made her son-in-law address the

envelope and h unbeknown to you, I take the liberty of telling

you as M H is alivin' here with ht to see, but perhaps I'd better have a word or tith you

myself, if not quite ill-convenient to you, and h to say how that's to be done to your obedient, huht this very diplomatic, inasmuch as nobody but Frank could

possibly suspect what the letter ton,

but, alas! he was in Germany, and poor Mrs Caffyn had to wait a week

before she received a reply Frank of course understood it

Although he had thought about Madge continually, he had become

calmer He saw, it is true, that there was no stability in his

position, and that he could not possibly ree been the commonest of the common, and his relationship to her

the commonest of the common, he could not permit her to cast herself

loose from him for ever and take upon herself the whole burden of his

misdeed But he did not knohat to do, and, as successive

considerations and reconsiderations ended in nothing, and the

distractions of a foreign country were so nue bill which we cannot pay, and which

staggers us We therefore docket it, and hide it in the desk, and we

iain, however, the flaain the thought that he