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hier ARGOS Y. AUGUST Ty. HO 74: oe PN: hare DEAD. OF} NIGHT. or xem tee CHAPTER XXIV. BACK AGAIN AT PARK NEWTON. ENERAL ST. GEORGE’S health improved so rapidly that, y contrary to his first intention, he decided that he would return to England at once and, if possible, get settled down somewhere by Christmas. As he was running his eye through the Zzmes one day he saw, to his intense astonishment, that Park Newton was advertised to be let. By the next post he sent a brief note to Kester, calling his attention to the advertisement, and asking him the meaning of it. In due course he received the following reply. ‘“My dear Uncle,—The advertisement to which you allude has no other meaning than is visible on the surface of it. Park Newton is empty, and empty it will remain as far as Iam concerned. Why not, therefore, try to find a tenant for it, and make at the same time a welcome addition to my income? I know what you will say—that, as the head of the family, it is my duty to live in the family home. That is very well from your point of view, but to me the place is burdened with a memory so terrible (which time can never efface or cause to fade from my mind) that for me to live there is a sheer impossibility. ‘But, apart from all this, I thnk you know me sufficiently well to feel sure that to me a country life would ‘soon become insupportable. After the first freshness had worn off—after I had eaten some of my own peaches and drunk some of my own buttermilk—after I had been duly coached by my bailiff in the mysteries of subsoils and top-dressings, whatever they may be—and after going through all the dull round of bucolic hospitality : I should be sure to cut the whole affair in disgust some fine day, and not recover my peace of mind till after a dinner at the Zrots Freres and a little box at the Gymuase. | VOL. XVIII. | A \F GomilGoooksne