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"Directly we see anything we'll run houn to fail her To this the rest assented, not

knowing that a dozen neighbors lurked in the bushes around

"I e had not thought of trying this," said another, "but had

contented ourselves with the hole-digging to- our husbands' trades It is too s with

the Evil One to try to raise their forone too far to recede, and slowly began to h the trees towards the deeper

recesses of the wood As far as the listeners could gather, the

particular form of black-art to be practised on this occasion was one

connected with the sowing of heirl At the moment of their advance they looked back, and

discerned the figure of Miss Melbury, who, alone of all the observers,

stood in the full face of the s By contrast with her life of late years they made her

feel as if she had receded a couple of centuries in the world's

history She was rendered doubly conspicuous by her light dress, and

after a fehispered words, one of the girls--a bouncing s--asked her if she would join in

Grace, with some excitement, said that she would, and moved on a little

in the rear of the rest