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THE ARGOSY. FULY, 1876. EDINA. By Mrs. HENRY WOOD, AuTHoR or “EAST LYNNE.” epee CHAPTER XIX APPREHENSIONS. HE fine old house, Eagles’ Nest, lay buried in snow. It was | Christmas-tide, and Christmas weather. All the Raynor family had assembled within its walls: with the exception of Dr. Raynor and his daughter Edina. Charles had come home from keeping his first term at Oxford ; Alfred from school; Frank Raynor and his wife had returned from their sojourn abroad. For, all these past months, during which we have lost sight of them, Frank and Daisy had been on the Continent. Close upon their departure from Trennach, Frank, through his medical friend, Crisp, was introduced to a lady who was going to Switzerland with her only son, a sickly lad of fifteen, in whom the doctors at home had hardly been able to keep life. This lady, Mrs. Berkeley, proposed to Frank to travel with them as medical attendant on her son, and she had. not the least objection to Frank’s wife being of the party. So, preliminaries were settled, and they started. Frank considered it a most opportune chance to have fallen to him while he was waiting for the lost money to turn up. But the engagement did not last long. Hardly were they settled in Switzerland when the lad died, and Mrs. Berkeley returned to England. Frank stayed on where he was. The place and the sojourn were alike pleasant ; and, as he remarked to his wife: who knew but he might pick up a practice there, amid the many English resident in the town, or flocking to it as birds of passage? Daisy was just as delighted to remain as he: they had funds in hand, and could afford to throw care to the wind. Even had care shown itself: which it did not. obs VOL, XXII. B ‘ comlichooks.com