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232 ROXY HASTINGS. “Oh, dead-sure.”’ 3 ‘And that Alfred Lee is himself here?” she asked, still more faintly. “Yes, yes, the lieutenant, the one that was in Richmond. I did not hear his Christian name.” Hurriedly, pantingly, she drew a locket from her bosom, opened it, and held it up before young Allard’s eyes, with- out speaking, for again her voice seemed to have failed her, but with a look of the most painful anxiety. ‘Yes, yes! That’s the face!” shouted Edward, ‘‘only he has a mustache now—that’s all the difference.” | “Don’t make a mistake now, Ed’ard,” said the mother, while Lucy’s eyes wandered rapidly from one to the other. ‘‘T can’t be mistaken, mother; I have been looking at him all the forenoon. I know every feature in this face as wellasI domy own. He had a lady’s ring on his little finger, with six small pearls. ‘‘Oh, God! I thank thee!” exclaimed Lucy, sinking to her knees before the sofa. ‘No, no, there can no longer be a doubt. Pray—some one—help me to my room.” “Yes, dear, but we cannot leave you alone there just yet,” said Mrs. Allard. ‘ You are very weak and faint.” ~ When they had assisted her up stairs, and Edward, at his mother’s request, was about to withdraw, Lucy stopped him with a question. : “Did not you say something about one being with him ?” “Goodness gracious, yes!” said Allard, smiling. “His sister, Laura, and a Mr. Tinklejaw or some such name.” ‘Her husband ?” | ‘I don’t know. If he ain’t, he’s a going to be, I’ll be bound, for he never took his eyes off her.” “Then they ain’t married yet,” said the old lady, with a very positive air. | CHAPTER XLV. SUCCESSFUL EXPERIMENT. Lucy continued so agitated that Mrs. Allard called in her family physician, who, after administering some medicine to quiet her nerves, advised that she should have an inter- view with Mr. Lee with as little delay as possible. ‘‘Her excitement will not subside until it culminates, and it will not culminate until she has seen him,” he_ sgaid, ~ gravely. “But let the first interview be short.” ‘Ss GComicboo com