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"Yes, uncle, I'll do et his

sheets aired at once" And she left the roo hands from her uncle

Once outside the bedrooh to stop the tu to

happen? Should she hear Cardo's name from Captain Owen? Could she

find her way to the docks? and as a gleah

the littlein the linen cupboard, she thought what a bright and

happy place Fordsea was after all

She hurried through her domestic preparations, and then, after a

consultation with her uncle,supplies for the following days When she returned, the front

door was open, and, entering the passage, she heard loud voices in her

uncle's rooh-bearded,

blue-eyedby the bedside

"Well, that's all settled, then; you'll let the young man have my

rooms? 'Twill only be for two or three days And this is your niece?

Well, upon ain Hard lines for

ht and day to watch those repairs, while

friend comes here to be taken care of and fussed about by irl"

Val frouest of Cardo and his whereabouts