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The old man did not seem to hear him "I forbade the renunciation she

wished to ently, "but I accept it now for the

sake of our stricken friend--for Mr Harkless"

"And for the Carlow 'Herald,'" co that upon which this conversation took place, the

two gentle the arrival

of the express froray day; the wide country lay

dripping under for rain

blackened the weather-beaten shingles of the station;puddles of the unevenly worn planks of the platfor-cases that never went anywhere too thoroughly for

occupation by the station-lounger, and ran in a little crystal stream off

Fisbee's brown cotton umbrella and down Mr Parker's back The 'bus

driver, Mr Bennett, the proprietor of two attendant "cut-unders," and

three or four other worthies whom business, or the lack of it, called to

that locality, availed theentleitated to be confined, save by

the limits of the horizon They had reached the station half an hour

before train ti the platfor each other only in erly, and for the thousandth time, about the

late events, and the tre Fisbee Judd Bennett

looked out through the rainy doorway at the latter with reverence and a