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EXPLANATIONS. 483 but you cannot be more so than I was upon learning: to-night that Miss Gladstone is a member of your family,” returned his lordship. | ‘‘But you tell me that you were intending to call upon her friends to-morrow, and here you have been in the same house a day and a night already.” ‘‘True; but I was not aware of the fact until within the last hour. Miss Gladstone gave me her address last Saturday. even- ing. Here it is; you can read it. It was late when I asked for it, and she wrote it hastily upon this card.” The young man passed it to his companion as he spoke, and Mr. Richards read the street and number of his own residence. ‘*You will remember,” Lord Carrol continued, ‘‘that Iam an entire stranger in this place, and that I do not even know the name of the street upon which you reside, as Mrs. Richards was kind enough to say that some one should meet me at the station upon my arrival. I wished very much to go to Star to-day, but courtesy demanded that I should not dissarrange Mrs. Richards plans. I fully intended, however, to ask you to direct me to the place designated on that card to-morrow, never once suspecting that I was already in the house where the lady of my choice resides. ” ‘‘And has Star never mentioned our name to you?” Mr. Richards asked. , ‘‘No; she has been very reticent regarding everything con- nected with herself save her studies and her music, and I have not thought to question her on that point.” Mr. Richards’ face clouded. Star had good cause for being reticent, he knew, and the subject was becoming an awkward one for him. ‘“You say you met her to-night?” he said. ‘‘Yes; I went cut for a stroll.and a smoke after dinner, and came upon her suddenly in the grounds. She appeared to be GOMIEHOOKS: GE