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A HEART’S BITTERNESS. 969 | “You are my best friend,” he said. ‘I owe you évery- thing, all my devotion, how shall I ever repay you?” ‘*‘ Pay the debt to my boy,” said Violet, quietly. ‘* And it shall really be this way?” “Yes. I think it will work to a charm,” said Violet. His lordship looked another man from that minute. He wore a most radiant face when he drove off to the station. ) | Now, about the middle of December, ‘Violet wrote to Lady Burton, begging that she and Edna would come to the Towers, to pass the holidays there quietly. Lady Burton and Edna arrived on the twentieth and — a readily into their places in Violet’s quite household ife. : On the evening of the twenty-forth, Violet, in a furred cloak and hood, was, just before twilight, pacing the ter- race, looking down the avenue, as if watching for some one, She did not seem at all surprised when Lord Alwood rode up, followed by a groom on horseback. The groom led off the horse, and Alwood, with his cloak over his arm, went up the broad steps by Lady Leigh’s side. ters,” said Violet, ‘‘and Edna is sitting there alone by the fire. You shall go in at once, if you like.” , She knocked at the library, then pushed open the door. Lord Alwood entered, and the door swung shut softly. , The library was in a ruddy twilight of the hearth-fires and the dying day. Edna was leaning back in a low bam- ~ boo chair, her lovely head against the tufted blue satin cushions, her white dress falling in a soft cloud about her, — the leaping flame touching robe and hair with points of ‘gleaming gold. Lord Alwood moved softly forward: ‘Miss Haviland! Edna!” he said, in a low tone. She made no answer. He drew nearer; he could see her face now. Her hands lay loosely in her lap; the long, dark lashes swept her delicate cheeks. Edna was asleep, and her dimples went and came, and her lips curved, asin ‘ << - 2 i a happy dream. — Alwood knelt beside her chair, and said, gently: . ‘‘ Kdna, Edna, wake!” | She opened her eyes; he seemed to so mingle with her ~ e “<I peeped into the library just now, through the shut- to, é le * > Fa J a \ comicbooks.co