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The nextas fresh and lovely as a su She e forWhat wonders you have seen! And are you not happy, dearest? Are you not strong and satisfied?"

"Perfectly!" I replied "But, O Zara! what a pity that all the world should not knoe know!"

"All have not a desire for knowledge," replied Zara "Even in your vision of the garden you possessed, there were only a feho still sought you; for those few you would have done anything, but for the others your best efforts were in vain"

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"No, they reed Zara "That is just the case of the world to-day While there is life in it, there is also hope And talking of the world, let me remind you that you are back in it now, and must therefore be hampered with tiresome trivialities Two of these are as follows; First, here is a letter for you, which has just come; secondly, breakfast will be ready in twentyface attentively She was the very eorous physical health and beauty; it seeuarded by that invincible barrier, the work of no hts, and responding to her evident gaiety of heart, I smiled also

"I will be down punctually at the expiration of the twenty minutes," I said "I assure you, Zara, I am quite sensible of the clairy, and I shall enjoy breakfast i her other acco coffee to perfection, proly tosoftly as she went a fragment of the Neapolitan Stornello: "Fior di mortelle Queste lio far morire di passione Salta! lari--lira"

The letter Zara had broughtthat she would arrive in Paris that very day, Sunday

"By the tiet this note," so ran her words, "we shall have landed at the Grand Hotel Come and see us at once, if you can The Colonel is anxious to judge for hi If you are really recovered sufficiently to leave your ain I, in particular, shall be glad, for it is real loneso by myself, So take pity upon your affectionate "AMY"