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"Dear Sir Adrian," says Dora Talbot, laying down her bat upon a garden-chair, and forsaking the gareet her host, "where have you been? We haveto her cousin--"will you taketo defeat Lord Lisle"

Lord Lisle, a entlehted at the prospect of a change in the ga Lisles, and a fervent passion for tennis Mrs Talbot having proved a very conte rid of her

So Florence, vice Dora retired, joins the gaor When however Lord Lisle has scored a grand victory, and all the players declare thehly exhausted and in need of refreshht up to Miss Dele of Arthur Dynecourt

"You have often asked to see the 'haunted chamber,'" he says; "why not come and visit it now? It isn't hostly sense, it is, I suppose, interesting"

"Let us ests Dora, enthusiastically clasping her hands--her favoritefalse emotion of any kind She is deterrao nowhere alone with Sir Adrian

"What a capital idea!" puts in Arthur Dynecourt, co her with all the air of a rightful owner

"Char by; and so the question is settled

"It will be rather a fatiguing journey, you know," says Captain Ringwood, confidentially, to Ethel Villiers "It's an awful lot of stairs; I've been there, so I know all about it--it's worse than the treadmill"

"Have you been there too?" de lashes

"Not yet," answers the captain, with a little grin "But, I say, don't go--will you?"

"Ito see it," replies Ethel "You needn't coet on without you for half an hour or so"

"I dare say you could get on uncolooirl with the auburn hair and the blue eyes has the power of taking the "curl out of him" whensoever she wishes