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"You have done nobly, darling," Fanny Hetherton had said to Lucy when

she received her from Thornton's hands and heard that all was over;

then, leading her half-fainting cousin to her own cheerful room, she

made her lie dohile she told of the plan she had formed when first

she heard what Lucy's intentions were

"I wrote to the doctor, asking if he would take a trip to Europe, so

that you could go with us, for I know you would not wish to stay here

To-day I have his answer, saying he will go, and what is better yet,

father and lad I could not stay here now," Lucy replied,

sobbing herself to sleep, while Fanny sat by and watched, wondering at

the strength which had upheld her weak little cousin in the struggle

she had been through, and, now that it was over and the doctor safe

fro that it was just as well; for, after all, it

was a _mésalliance_ for an heiress like her cousin to y at Prospect Hill on the night of the

fifteenth, but neither Lucy nor Arthur were there He lay sick again

at the St Denis in New York and she was alone in her cha that, now the worst was over, she

the work undone She

ith the bridal party to New York, where she tarried for a few

days, seeing no one but Anna, for whom she sent at once The interview

had lasted more than an hour, and Anna's eyes were swollen with