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40 | THE SAGAMORE OF SACO. upon the shelf. He bowed slightly to Dame Higgins, but, ob- serving her work, expressed interest in its progress. It was wonderful how whist the four women became upon his en- trance, which observing, he passed out again, saying, with a grave smile, which well became his handsome face : “Tam sure I nipped some woman’s story in the bud by coming in, so I will even go, that ye may finish it,” and he went out again, whereat Dame Higgins exclaimed : “ Ye surely put all your beauty into that boy, mistress, and saved little for your girls,” Both the girls pouted somewhat at this, but Perseverance hummed : ** What care I how black I be! Forty pounds will marry me!” And Dame Higgins soon after took her leave, followed to the door by Mistress Bonyton, who implored her to give no currency to their recent conversation. “The time is not yet ripe,” she continued. “The Gover- nor is powerful, and Mistress Vines well esteemed. We must proceed with caution, John is not to be tried with, as ye may judge, and his father is strong and willful. We must proceed only upon sure grounds.” Dame Higgins promised discretion, but she had several Visits to pay that day. CHAPTER VIII. THE SPIDER'S WEBS, Ir was just midnight, and John Bonyton still paced the sands at the head of the Pool, striving in vain to wrest his thoughts from the one object of hisdevotion. At length, as the moon was lost in the west, he turned wearily homeward, with that vague unrest with which persons turn to a disagreeable location. Emerging from a grove of pines, he observed a figure leaning against the bole of one of these, with head droop- ing upon its breast. Be you pastixee xml he asked, coldly, as he stood GOmmcoooks.conn