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CHAPTER IV.

A TIMELY RECONSIDERATION. For a few days matters ran smoothly enough. The weather was lovely, ideal May weather in fact, and Raynier keenly appreciated the anft beauty of this typical English landscape seem at ile beet at the loveliest time of the year-the fresh green of the foliage and the yellow spangled meadows; the cool lanes, shaded with hawthere blossoms; the snur farmhouses, with

08. 113 MAUDALEN TARAGE," their blaze of glowing flower-beds, and th

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hum of the mill at the end of the village, and the screech of swifta, skirring and wheeling Hongkong, 1st January, 1903.

round the church tower, ssen beyond the wall of the vicarage garden,-such homoly rights and sounds appealed to him the more by contrast to the brassy skies and baked aridity for which he would so soon be bound to exchange them. For his furlongh was drawing very nor its

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effect consequently when Eycler hinted at i spend our livse together! Bosily I think we'd the possibility of hie unt going to bardh it better seriously reconsider that programme.

She looked at him. Just her father's warni exploded. The idea of such a thing! Why of contes he must go, staying at the Viurage ming. But she was too sugry for prudent counsel

to prevail

Do you mean that?" she said, bevathing h was. What would be aid in the parists ?

"But it didn't matter dit was sold in tho parish last Sunday. You wouldn't let me come quickly. then because I was too he orgel, with mischievons wink at Sylvia.

"Well, as you were, but your face is nearly all right again now," answored Cynthia brisely, and with acerbity, for she had no sense of fun. "Not it. Youll so it'll keep all the ohoi boys staring, and they can't warble with thoir heads cooked round at right angles to the rest of them."

Sylvis spluttered.

All the more reason why you should some, Herbert," alia asid, "I want to see that. It' be good sport.”

"If you were a boy you'd be a typical parson's son, Silly," he Lauphed.

Shaf up I'll throw something at you if you call me tha.

"Do, and you'll keep up the part," he

returned.

Worthingham Churc way in e'ose ro- semblance to a thousand or so other village churches of its size and circonstauen in that it was old and pictaru-que, and gave forth the same favour of mould, and damp stones. There was the same rustic chair with newly oiled hends and clattering boots and skimpy sar- the Vicar's sermon was on the same level of pllo, singing the same backneyed bymus, and prosiness. not that he could not have done utter bat he had long sine emned to think it worth while taking the trouble. But Cynthia Daintree, anted in the front paw. well gowned. and tastefully hatted, and withal complacently conscions of the sime, was the presiding god. dess, at whom the rustics storesaid never seemed tired of fa‹tirely staring-in awe which noisewhat outweighed their admiration-therein well-nigh overlooking the discoloured counten- ano of her fine.

looks as if she'd bought up Cynthis always recollections. That sort of nature does not irreverently.

Ragaier had auswered one or two enquiries tenently and leave ounsel Syiria, sub- after his bicycle accident"-Cynthin having Avail-chauge, he told himself, and the prospect of

speniling his days with the life-long accompani.deftly confrised to let it be understood, though not in so many words, that was was the nature ment if such was as a very weight. And his

of his mishap and they word re-entering the [512 was not one of those easy-going, quickly-for-garden gate. Bad fenly she sat 1.

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Strange that under the circu ustauces it should be almost entirely this that constituted his regret. Cynthia seemed to forget her chronic ill-temper, and became quite affos- tionate, yet the recollection of her outbarste ru mained. Eran when at her best Raynier could

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Where your stick, Herbert? The ma'no ca Why, you haven't uselitat all this time." As a miter It was all up now, hạt sought, of fact his main ronson for andavouring to avoid going to caurch that morning was that it would be ous opportunity the less for her to miss that nulsexy article

"No, I haven't. The fact is I've lost it." "Lost it? Oh Herbert!"

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For one dircumstano, as time went on, he ARBUTHNOT ROAD, SIX felt devently thankful, although at first he had reproached her with it, and that was that ROOMED HOUSE.

Cyrthia was not of a demonstrative tempera Apply to

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spoke of the future, or dwelt upon their life to- gether, and observing it he more than not her half-way. Au they went about together, both

"Yes, I'm awfully worry, Cyathis. I wouldn't in speech and demeanour they were more Kke

I'm having inga rica | two people of very rucmt aud ordina y acapiu-have lost it for anything, but even us it is I'm

tance than a batrothel ople whom a few days sure to get it back agaid

male, and offering rewards, in short doing all I more were to separate by nearly half the width

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She looks so genuinely bar! that be felt almost guilty.

Bat-bow did you loss it, and where P" He told her low; that being a detail he had purposely omitted in previous narration of the incident. It was bat frowningly received.

At the actual state of things the Vicar, for bis part, shrewdly pass d. but being a sensible man forebere to interfere. Cynthin was quite old enough to manage her own affairs, and so Loo was Royaier. Possibly, when the thing

"I didn't think you would attach so little was irrevocable they would hit it off together as well as most people did under the circom-valuo to anything I had given you, and yet I stances, which, to be sure, was not saying mach.might have known you better." Cynthia, with her faul's, had her good points, and of Bayiler he entertained a very high oplaiou. It would turn ont right enough. he decided, but if he had any misgiving. the Vicar was forced to own to himself that it was not on

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Curions thing that will of old Jarvie Rayaier's," he said one day, when he and his son-in-law elect were walking up and down smoking their pipes. he left a god deal, and all to a girl who was hardly any relat.on at all. You only come in after ber.

Which is tantamount to not at all. But the same holds good of myself in the matter of elationship. Tam only a distant cousin-so distant te hardly to edn it."

What is there about the English Suadsy st. mosphere that is apt to render contentions people more quirrelson, still, and these not naturally contentions, well, a little prickly? Rayuier felt his patience ebbing. She was very unreasonable over the matter, and, really-she was quite old enough to bare more sƏBRB,

"I don't think you're altogether fair to Tue, Cynthis." he answered, his owo tone getting "The thing was unavoidable, rather, short. you so, unless you mean you would rather the mau'e bruina hal ben kocked out by that bestial mob thru that I should have given him Rome in sans of defending himself. I value the stick immensely, and am doing all I cu to re- oover it, but I should have thong at eres yox *You are a Raynier, at any rate. But she would hardly have value it at something be My advice to you is not to. too slight. The girl is young, they tell me, and attractive. She'e bound to marry, and then where do you come in."

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"Only a blackamoor's" she retortel, now white and tremulous with anger.

"Sorry I can't agree with you," ha siswered shortly, for he was thorong dy disgusted. "1 have seen rather too much of that sort of blacksmoor,' as you so elegantly term it, not to recognise that he, like ourselves, has his place and us in his own part of the wod. I repeat. I am a worry as you are the stick should have been lost, but I should here thught that under the circumstances no woman-with the feelings of a woman-would have hell me to blame."

"Nowhers, nulses I were to marry her may self," lenighed Raynier. But that's scratched now. By the bye-who is she, Vicar-?"

"Herbert! Oh, there you are," shrilled the roise of Sylvia at this juncture, followed by its owner, somewhat hot, sod armed with two trout-rods. "They told me you bad gone on; and I got balf-way down the willage bafoes I found out you hadnt. Here's your rod. Come along.

"That'sright. Sober at me, it's so manly," We're losing the best part of the morning,

There was uo saying the crisp decisive. she retorted, having reached the tremulous ness of these orders, and with an apology to the point of But why didn't you tell me Flear, be started off. He was forced to own to of it at fieri? Father anderhand, wasn't it?"

"Oh no, I don't deal in that sort of ware. himself that these axpeditions with the youngst

It never tanks. I did not tell you, solely out of orn- giri constituted his best fimea. occurred to Cynthis to be jelous of her sister,sideration for your feelings. I had hoped the not in the ordinary sense, although oaos ertwice thing might have been recovered by this time-~

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