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254 A Fair Fraud the brougham that awaited him, But when the lights of Crookthorpe Hall twinkled at him from the far end of the long avenue as he turned in at the lodge gates, he added to himself, with a strange new softening at his practical and matter-of-fact heart, ‘But I am a very happy fool, too—all said and done!’ The brougham drew up at the door, Marion heard the bell ring, and the footsteps of Horner and the footman echoed across the flags of the hall, then there was a little delay that seemed interminable to the listener, then more foot- steps, and these in the direction of the morn- ing-room door. } Marion closed her book, For if Naylor was scarcely able to contro] his agitation, it is needless to say that Marion had awaited her lover's arrival with a beating heart and tingling pulses. She had dressed early for dinner, and had put on that very white muslin frock in which Naylor had first seen her, and which he remembered well, He was shown into the morning-room, where there was no other light save that of the warm fireglow, and where her slight figure in white arose from the shadowy chimney corner to welcome him. She murmured a few words of explanation. Her uncle had not yet come in; her aunt was lying down in her own room; they begged him GORMGIOO oO G' Q)