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"I am not in orders yet, so let me be Arthur to you I love to hear

you call me so, and you to me shall be Lucy," was his reply

A mutual clasp of hands had sealed the co which had passed between theood-by, and wiped away a tear

which came unbidden to her eye as she told him how lonely she would be

without hi man, who for

days had paced the ship's deck so hts which had whispered that in his intercourse with her he had

not been all guiltless, and that if in her girlish heart there was a

feeling for hiive

it life

Tihts

till nohen Lucy herself had brought theain with her

winsoin just where they had

left off

"Let Anna tell ement,

which will relieve y hi, and the other in the

graceful, running hand which he recognized as Lucy Harcourt's

This he opened first, reading as follows: Prospect Hill, June--

"MR LEIGHTON: Dear Sir--Cousin Fanny is to have a picnic down

in the oods to-morrow afternoon, and she requests the