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"See there!" he said, as the tribe set hihtened the

populace" And Toh to answer, "It's

the hours

till you caood while;

and hasn't been able to talk or think of anything else She's only

fifteen, and the crucial moment is too much for her--the Great Harkless

has arrived, and she has fled"

He relory that now

struck him as rarely comical; be hoped he hadn't taken it too seriously

then, in the flush of his youth Maybe, after all, he had been a, big-

headed boy, but he h, or the

other boys would have detected it and abhorred him He was inclined to

believe that he had not been very much set up by the pomp they made for

him At all events, that day at Winter Harbor had been beautiful, full of

the laughter of friends and music; for there was a musicale at the Casino

in the afternoon

But the present hour grew on him as he leaned on the pasture bars, and

suddenly hisSchubert's

serenade across the way touched hient, personal appeal that

a present beauty always had for him It was a soprano; and without