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106 BONNY JEAN. ‘“Lady !” he said, with a strange intonation in his low, deep voice. ‘‘ My God! what is the meaning of this? We all have ‘mourned you as dead !” She caught both his hands in hers. ‘Oh, John! John!” she sobbed; ‘‘it is so strange—so wonderful! Sit down. and let me tell you all about it!" © And she did. From first to last her romantic story was told; and, as she proceeded, with her narrative, John’s face grew deadly white; he clenched his hands hard, and set his teeth, with a muttered imprecation. But when she (deter- mined that he should know all) revealed to him—as she knew that she was in honor bound to do—her engagement to Harry Lester, he bowed his head upon his clasped hands, and uttered never a word. When she had finished, he arose. His face was white as a dead man’s—stern, and set, and joyless; one would say, looking upon it, that it would never know a smile again. ‘‘Good-by !” he said, holding out his hand. ‘‘“Good-by ?” queried Lady, in wondering surprise. ‘‘ Why —why—are you not going to take me home ?” He gave her a strange, startled look. ‘Your parents are in Europe, Miss Adelaide,” he said, quietly. Lady’s face flushed. She had forgotten the sad truth, that she was homeless and alone. ‘‘Good-by !” she said, softly. ‘‘ You have not—not changed to me, Mr. Averill ?” It was a strange, unexpected question, and the girl’s dark eyes wore a wistful expression. He answered her with a . glance of tenderness ; his stern mouth quivered, but he was like adamant. He wrung her little hand, passed-through the door, and was gone! There was an expression of determination on the girl’s face, ‘as she stood there, alone in the room ; then, going to the door, she sent a messenger for Harry Lester. Hecameat once; she Eomicbooks.co