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"Indeed, indeed I will, Miss Powell--you laugh at that--well--may I say

Val me Valmai, even Shoni our servant"

"I may venture, then; and will you call me Cardo?"

"Yes, indeed; Cardo Wynne Cardo Wynne, everybody is calling you that,

too--even the little children in the village; I have heard the!' See, here is the path to Dinas, I ood-bye"

"Can't we have another walk along the beach? Remember, I, too, have no

one to talk to!"

"Oh, anwl, no! I et the tea for the preachers"

"And then back to theis in the chapel to-night"

"But when it is over you will co the shore?"

"Indeed, I don't know Good-bye," she said, as she began her way up

the rugged homeward path

When Cardo reached ho at the tea-table

The old parlour looked glooh the creepers which obscured the , threw a green

light over the table and the rigid, pale face of the Vicar

"You are late Cardo; where have you been?"

"In the longon below, and afterwards on the beach; it is a glorious

afternoon Oh! father, I wish you would coood for you to be always in your study poring over

those musty old books"

"My books are notto my

own ideas of what is fit and proper, and I should not think it either