Ruby's Reward — page 130: what you’re looking at

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Robert Gordon langhed. She had spoken very demuroly, but he felt suro she was labouring under an unnatural rostraint, ‘‘T think I have proved that beyond a doubt, by allowing this young lady to drag me wherever her sweet will has prompted this summer,” he said, softly pinching the ‘rosy check next him. ‘‘ But,” he added, «the train is ready to start and I must not detain you. (ood-morning ; we shall look for you some evening shortly.” | Walter bowod a smiling acceptance of this invitation, lifted his hat with one last ‘lingering glance at Ruby, and hastened from the car with a very happy heart, and ‘yet feoling, as he watched the train disap- pear around a bend in the road, as if half ‘the sunshine had been blotted from the Cay. (To be Continued.) comichooks.com