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oa “Please don’t Fase mean don’t go with your hand urting you,” he stammered. ; | “she laughed with the frankness of a child. | | 4 “My hand doesn’t hurt me,” she said. “Why should ae Then he smiled with a frankness equal to her own, and e she noticed involuntarily that his face was handsomer — _- than ever when he smiled. Me 3 “JT was afraid a splinter might have run into it. ‘No ? 2 as she shook her head, still smiling. “Well, it might, — you know. Don’t think I’m rude; but do you ‘live here ?” _* Ves, in the village.” _ He hesitated, looked embarrassed, then said, boldly : “Perhaps you saved my life——” ‘She laughed merrily. “Oh, no.” a But, ” he persisted, with a twinkle in his eye, in spite z of an effort to seem very serious, “my horse might have FS a pub his foot into the crack, I might have been thrown, and — you never can tell what the consequences of a fall may be. ee am sure lowe you my life. Iam very grateful”—there — spoon be no doubt of that—‘‘and I would. like to—to call sa1pen you if I may. Now you are going tosay no. I can See it in your face. I know itis awfully bold of me; but _ really we should become acquainted in time anyhow, FOF 2 I have come here to live.” _ She looked her surprise and interest. ce “Yes,” he said, in answer to her expression, “Iam Guy — = Darlington.” | “Lord Darlington !” and she shrank back a little. me Yes,” he answered, noting her slight action with won- a der; “ and won't you tell me now who you are? I thought at first that you weve a nymph of the woods, but you are -_ mortal, are you not?” + She laughed again, and then, with an air of reserve and 2 seated that sat well upon her said, quietly : ~ “Yam the daughter of Melville Lisle, a poor gentleman of the village. 2 The “poor” he ignored, and demanded, eagerly : “Of the Lisles of Granthorpe ?” “Cousins, I think.” “Then we ought to be friends, for we have two lawsuits = qwit the Lisles of Granthorpe.” _ Violet laughed. } ; “Ts that a good ground for friendship ?” 3 ee ee 25, “The very best. Mother and I may call, way We wor” >= = Aee" aS “eR Ne ae