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® 16 THE DUGDALE MILLIONS. “What is it? For gracious sake what?’’ cried Wallis in alarm. ‘“That is what the letter is about.”’ ‘“What, the greenery?”’ ‘Yes; someone has told father!”’ “There will be atime. I must be with you when the storm breaks.’’ ‘‘No, no; I don’t care for myself. All he can do will be to scold, but poor Dick ‘Oh, poor Dick It’s poor Dick now, is it?’’ “Please don’t tease, because this is very serious. You know Dick—that is, Mr. Mason, is in papa’s office, and if papa were to cut up rough it might be very serious for Mr. Mason.’’ And vt he does?” **Well, it may be very hard on Mr. Mason. Just for fancying one, you know.’ “Just for loving his employer's daughter. But you see he ought not to aspire so high, and the lovely prin- cess should not stoop to so lowly aknight.,” ‘‘Mr. Mason is a gentleman.”’ ‘*But as poor as I am—the traditional church mouse. Yet if you are irretrievably steeped in your folly, and if Papa Hetlow proceeds to extremes, you will have but one thing to do.’’ “What?” ‘‘Marry poor Dick and compel the Hetlow Fortress to succumb from attacks from without.” “What? Without his even asking me to marry him?’ “‘I presume he has done that already.’’ | No}-he has not even prestmed> to: do« so, “71 wouldn’t let him go so far.”’ *“Bess,’’ cried Wallis, uncurling herself and assum- ing great severity. ‘‘You are not flirting with that young man?” **Suppose I am, what then?’”’ Comicloeo® S C@ 3