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62 THE SEARED HEART, Toward night the doctor came with a carriage for Miss Ellen, and happening to be on the steps, I saw Miss Gresham run out of a doorway, nearer to him than I was, and tell him something before he came in, to which he nodded his head. Now, I’m not so great a fool, perhaps, as Margery Gresham thinks. I can, at least, put two circumstances together; and I am very well satisfied that she knew the doctor had been there at the very time Ellen Gracie asked her, and that somehow she and the doctor had a secret understanding. Why should he be sneaking off the back way, through the grounds of the Hermitage, if not to avoid being seen by prying eyes? I know there is some secret between those two.” ‘The doctor is a widower,” remarked Mrs. Sparks, sen- tentiously. ‘‘Pshaw! it’s nothing of that kind. ‘Those two were always awful thick, and if they had wanted to marry, they have had plenty of chances. No, it is nothing of that kind,” ; CHAPTER VII. THE SEARED HEART. When Leon Brownlee came down from his room, early the morning after his arrival at Everleigh, it was raining. Murky clouds were scudding across the sky, and the at- mosphere without was full of a fine, soaking rain. <A wet, soggy, depressing air everything had outside, and inside he somehow fancied it looked dreary, too. The great hall- door, which always stood open when the weather would permit, was closed. r mn ~ a; “< * dae Ke : =>. Se ahaa © oer 8 * - sn = Jimi oo ear ee me, ieee J fe a a, ae er ke a —_— - sh = oe 5 ' . . - 5 a ee my . a > A . . : : Ps , “ * BAT oe’ oe ee bean ? Y ) ) va (@) | Cc mM ‘ J / 3 a SI 5 o* A rts oe » ~~ a aoe “4 . 2 <¥” . f y f “ * a ‘< 7 “4 be 2 - ’ ’ . ‘ A ~ ¢- a y a ye re a” > , A - , “ , J