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"What a joy for the spare room!" exclaimed the schoolmaster. "Sure I wouldn't wonder if the old bed was dancin' on its four legs this very minute." "I intend to walk up to the hills to-night," I said. "Up to the hills!" he exclaimed merrily. "An' the Hackets lyin' awake thinkin' o' ye on the dark road! Try it, boy, an' ye'll get a crack with the ruler and an hour after school.

The train clattered on, and Lady Merrifield hoped it would hush all other voices, but neither of the Hackets could refrain from discussing the trial, and heaping such unmitigated censure on the counsel for the prisoner, that Miss Mohun felt herself constrained to fly in the face of all she had said at the hotel, and to maintain the right of even such an Englishman to be defended, and of his advocate to prevent his conviction if possible.

Sometimes one hears of stolen people acting as good genii to the living, as in this tale, heard also close by the haunted pond, of John Kirwan of Castle Hacket. They have ever been famous for beauty, and I have read that the mother of the present Lord Cloncurry was of their tribe. I imagine that the mother of Lord Cloncurry was descended from the Hackets.

"My mother and father and your aunt and uncle and the Hackets and the minister and a number of our friends are coming in a fleet of boats." "We are prepared either for a picnic or a wedding," was the whisper of Kate. "Let's make it both," I proposed to Sally. "Surely there couldn't be a better place than here under the big pine it's so smooth and soft and shady," said she.

I had been fully occupied with preparations for these missionaries while the bishop was at Labuan; some additions to the comfort of the house for the Hackets; a new cook-house and servants' rooms near, to build; and the church to reroof.

The Hackets stayed at Sarawak: indeed they all remained with us until Easter, when their ordination took place. The Easter services that year, 1858, were very delightful. All these missionaries were more or less musical, and Mr. Hacket adorned the church as it had never been decked before.

So the lost pocketbook became a treasured mystery of the village and of all the hills and valleys toward Ballybeen a topic of old wives and gabbing husbands at the fireside for unnumbered years. By and by the fall term of school ended. Uncle Peabody came down to get me the day before Christmas. I had enjoyed my work and my life at the Hackets', on the whole, but I was glad to be going home again.

What more could be desired? Again, when she would not promise to see either Miss Vincent or the Miss Hackets, because 'she did not want to have a fuss, Aunt Jane said she thought it a pity, with regard at least to the governess, who might feel herself hurt at the neglect, 'and needless secrets are always unadvisable.

In the midst the Miss Hackets were announced, and there were exclamations of great joy at the sight of Miss Mohun; as she and Miss Hacket flew upon each other, and to the very last moment, discussed the all-engrossing subject of G.F.S. politics.

Secrets are not kept as well as people think. The Hackets' married sister was a neighbour of Bessie's married sister, and through these ladies it had just come round, not only who was the author of 'Charlie's Whistle, etc., but that she wrote in the Magazine, and was in the neighbourhood. All offences seemed to be forgotten in the burning desire for an introduction to this marvel of success.