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And there was Elsie Beals, quite elegant, the only daughter of the President of the A. and P. The Woodyards, Percy and Lancey, classmates of Vickers at the university, both slim young men, wearing their clothes carelessly, clearly not of the Hollenby manner, had attached themselves here. Behind them was Nan Lawton, too boisterous even for the open air.

Oh dear, I'm better now," and he put down the tumbler from which he'd been drinking. "Write your note here, and then we'll go and see my pet pheasants before dinner." Vickers and the footman knew that something had happened of much moment, for the earl was usually very particular about his dinner-table.

You may thank the lady and the child for it." Julia Vickers hastened to propitiate the arbiter of her daughter's fate. "We are obliged to you," she said, with a touch of quiet dignity resembling her husband's; "and if I ever get back safely, I will take care that your kindness shall be known." The swindler and forger took off his leather cap with quite an air.

Young girls do like flattery, of course. Don't you think so?" This rapid attack quite disconcerted Mr. Meekin, and he could only bow and smile at the self-possessed young lady. "Go into the kitchen, Danny, and tell them to give you some tobacco. Say I sent you. Mr. Meekin, won't you come in?" "A strange old gentleman, that, Miss Vickers. A faithful retainer, I presume?"

The hopes of a year were shattered in a second, and, rejecting with fierceness the sympathy of her family, she went up to her room and sat brooding in the darkness. She came down the next morning, pale from want of sleep. Mr. Vickers, who was at breakfast, eyed her curiously until, meeting her gaze in return, he blotted it out with a tea-cup.

"There isn't a Scarhaven man amongst them. My cousin I mean you know whom I mean bought this yacht just as it stood, from an American millionaire early this spring, and he took over the captain, crew, and everything." "So we're in the hands of strangers!" exclaimed Vickers, while Copplestone dug his hands into his pockets and began to stamp about.

Vickers, which that gentleman met with a cold stare. Miss Vickers paid no heed. "You get off home," she said to her father; "I'll see to the Horse and Groom to-morrow." Mr. Vickers muttered something under his breath, and then, with a forlorn attempt at dignity, departed.

Vickers hastened to turn the conversation, and, amid recollections of old days, and speculations as to future prospects, the little incident was forgotten. But when, an hour later, Mr. Frere traversed the passage that led to his bedroom, he found himself confronted by a little figure wrapped in a shawl. It was his childish enemy. "I've waited for you, Mr. Frere," said she, "to beg pardon.

Still singing she turned into her room, and Vickers could hear her, as she moved back and forth, singing to herself. And as he hung brooding over Rome, listening to the gurgle of the fountain in the garden, he often listened to this contralto voice echoing the spirit within him.... Sometimes a little girl came out on the balcony to play. "Are you English?" she asked the young man one day.

Prosecution again objected, and the yeas and nays were taken: Yeas Anthony, Bayard, Buckalew, Davis, Dixon, Doolittle, Fessenden, Fowler, Grimes, Henderson, Hendricks, Johnson, McCreery, Morrill of Maine, Morton, Norton, Patterson of Tennessee, Ross, Sherman, Sprague, Sumner, Trumbull, Van Winkle. Vickers. and Willey-25 14 Republicans and 11 Democrats.