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ROXY HASTINGS, 227 you. Our first care must be to get into ——shire as soon as possible, and establish ourselves somewhere in the neighborhood of the Allards.- After that we must be guided by circumstances.” ‘*Ves, 9 ‘Heaven grant that we may find the dear girl there, and well, for I cannot avoid some forebodings.” xe But surely, Alfred, you have no reason for apprehen- sion. “IT do not know. We all know what the life of a governess is at the best, and—and I learned from Miss Blythe, the day before we sailed, that poor Lucy had been almost persecuted by the attentions of one of the young Allards.” “Is it possible ?” ‘Yes, and that his parents had joined in trying to per- suade her to accept him.” ‘But you have no fears—” “No—not of that, but she may have felt compelled to quit the family, and she may be wandering in quest of a new home, without having left any clew by which we could follow her. Think of the perils which would en- viron her, in suchacase as that, in a strange country, too.” Laura combatted these fears of her over-anxious brother as well as she could, reassuring him chiefly by the reflec- tion that Providence, which had so signally preserved them both from serious peril would not fail to bring them together in safety. ) CHAPTER XLIV. LUCY’S JOY. The peace which had been concluded between the offended Mrs. Allard and her presuming governess was not of long continuance. Mortification rankled in_ the breast of the vain woman, and, although she would not make Lucy’s refusal of her son the ostensible cause of a quarrel, pretexts were not wanting for finding fault with the gentle girl. Perhaps if Miss Holden’s mind had not been too full of its one great sorrow she would have felt more keenly the petty annoyances to which she was subjected. _ As it was, she bore them all patiently, dreading nothing cS (E(@) Gomichoo