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"Didn't I tell you, O'Moy," answered the captain, mollified a little by the sympathy and good feeling peeping through the adjutant's boisterousness, "that poverty is just hell. It's my poverty that's in the way." "And is that all? Then it's thankful you should be that Sylvia Armytage has got enough for two." "That's just it." "Just what?" "The obstacle. I could marry a poor woman. But Sylvia "

Among the French were sailors as well as soldiers. "We'll tackle them," cried Job. "What business has they to be here?" exclaimed Bob. The French officer was in naval uniform, and Ronald, even at that distance, recognised Alfonse Gerardin. Mrs Armytage and her daughter shrieked for help; they fancied they had been attacked by bandits.

But no; I have heard and read of the falsehood and faithlessness of women, but I will not believe that Edda Armytage could by any possibility be guilty of such treachery: the very thought is dishonouring to her. Did I think that such a union would tend to her happiness, I would release her from her promise; but I feel sure it would not. No, no! wealth and rank would not bribe her. She loves me.

"But, Colonel Armytage, surely you do not forget that this Monsieur Gerardin was among those who made that dreadful attack on us in Spain that he certainly attempted to carry off Edda, and would have succeeded had it not been for Mr Morton's gallantry." Mrs Armytage had seldom ventured to differ so strongly with her husband.

The brief daylight hours of the northern winter had once more begun to increase, when Hilda received a letter from her father, announcing his intention of returning to Lunnasting in the early part of the summer, with Edda. He also spoke of her sister's engagement to a Colonel Armytage, remarking that the marriage would soon take place.

On the other side of her, endeavouring to engage her in conversation, walked the stranger whom Glover thought so like Alfonse Gerardin. The resemblance struck Morton, as his glance fell on his countenance, as even greater than on the previous evening. Miss Armytage seemed rather annoyed than otherwise with his attentions.

Just at the turn, where the stair-way was narrowest, Lance heard her exclaim, and saw that she had met face to face no other than Captain Armytage himself. "We heard that the Buccaneer Captain had come to grief." "I?" he laughed; and Gillian shook herself up, asking "Weren't you run down?" seeing even as she spoke that not a drop of wet was traceable. "Me!

Miss Armytage saved us from that, and left me convinced, but still not understanding your own attitude. And now comes Richard Butler to surrender to me and cast himself upon my mercy with another tale which completely gives the lie to Miss Armytage's, but confirms your own." "Richard Butler!" cried O'Moy. "He has surrendered to you?" "Half-an-hour ago."

"Oh, Ronald, what happiness to be saved by you!" murmured Edda, scarcely conscious of what she was saying, as Morton, followed by Bob Doull, who kept a cautious look-out on every side, returned to the huts. Those words revealed to him what he had scarcely dared to hope. He found old Doull severely hurt, while Colonel Armytage had been unable to follow, in consequence of his former wounds.

Robert Wynn knew of no such comparisons; he only felt how beautiful was that mass of interwoven rock, and wood, and town, reflected and rooted in the flood; he scarcely heard Captain Armytage at his left reminding him for the tenth time that he had been here before with his regiment. 'There's Point Levi to the south, a mile away, in front of the mountains.