STORY.
ONE
Magdalen
(By
DAY.
Rock
in
The
A.
WOOD,
of
Pioneer
brought
the
So
"
Then
there
us
doing
shall
we
go
"To the
is '
?"
in
to
pre
on its charms and expatiate She is a native of the place."
beauties.
Very train ward.
have
I
way
heard
the-
soon
our
southward
bound
the pair countrycarrying was reached When Alford it to be a dull, little proved vil sleepy one Its inn stood back from lage. the main street, and a garden full of surrounded it. Rosa spring flowers mund an exclamation. gave Isn't
what
We
shall
when
we
entered lady
was
aged
smiling, to who listened an with attention
woman, for tea
order
or
was,
to have
ought
been,
And
to
mean
you
the
of
country, my marked, .addressing " it's a Well, very
see
overfit
for
"Yes, eagerly.
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Rosamund,"
Jack
The
remark
A. 107
:
short time the was pony of a comfortable the shafts were vehicle. There the ruins of a to in the medieval castle be seien and Jack and Rosa neighbourhood, mund received ample and diffusive instructions as to its whereabouts, from the pony's owner. Mrs. kindly had Caine a substantial prepared luncheon in hot haste for her young and visitors when her directions ended she were it in Rosa placed mund's hands, saying
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and in the building singing under which newly-clothed hedges the Larks primroses grew. yellow manner and chanted all of rondos and the fresh, midair strong glees in was breeze redolent with the scent of gorse and thyme.
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seventeen
ob
were
four
at
the
Let
us
forget,
get everything mund cried,
but when
us let for Jack, Rosa to-day !" the winds had
least
bit.
:
Now
we'll
;
;
of each, they were surprised comfortable of appearance
by the
interior. must not be Now, mamma, you in a the girl said,frightened," as voice, ad studiously quiet they " vanced. I fell and sprained my foot and this lady and gentleman slightly, were kind enough to bring me home."
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lay on started
half
a
couch by to her feet,
fell back to her original to attenua She was thin there was a flush on' her cheek that told of pain.
instantly
sunken "You
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otherwise, I should going
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Nella not
?"
have
out
to-day."
No,
mamma,
I
am
not
other
way,"
the girl
said,
sank
into
a
hurt
you are not she gasped. on insisted
any
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he rejoined
as
position. and tion,
;
"
?"
head.
the trap."
into
A woman,
DRAKE BUILDERS'
her
was not a difficult task and the few seconds off pony was in a but different again, slightly direction and it was not until long it was a drawn before small up in hidden a hollow of the cottage moorland. The house showed very evident of neglect and decay ; signs but when Jack and his sister entered, with tfieir to an companion clinging
the but
were
road. the
across
"
play-ground. The
the
by
a
arm
This
near
the
Not
the large,
house
a
shook
girl
get her This
PERTH.
:
home
Jack laughed
Wales.
BROTHERS'
miles me
must the drive child poor said in an Rosamund under brother. to her "You won't seeing Castle Wynard, Jack ?"
tone
1900.
in
CHRISTIAN
two
take
home,"
1899.
1900.
1st,
go ?" asked from the trap.
We
"
"
"Reference,
girl
to
you very far descending
there
Is
The
5.
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Day, December
January
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5,
the
walk,"
a
moor."
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;
thanked
ques
Rosamund.
at for
came
Rosamund,
a In between
and the pony trotted thought, kindly level offroad. Horses along a broad were on and men busy in the fields and thrushes hand. Blackbirds' either
Jack
added.
CHARLES).
J.
MONSTER
his
way."
I
"
that
;
climbing slipped and
I No. tried but couldn't," to, in tones that the answer, given showed the speaker was suffering.
TATTEESALL'S (C/o
had pale and
"You may hungry you get and a bite of bread and back, Miss beef isn't a corned bad thing any
I
?"
stand
you
was
"
"
W.
said,
ere
a
Can
I
and
Jack looked
outfit'.
Rosamund
against "
that
Miss."
be
fell
hurt.
there, stone."
is
the bank
something
walking,
My foot
asked,
Jack
tioned.
PERTH.
STREET,
hurt?"
'you
was
satisfy
drawn his eyes to his sister's wearied face, and he recollected she had been very busy over colonial
PURSER
she re dear?" Rosamund.
woman's
.IN
"
RICHD.
I
much
RELIABLE
their
pretty country, say it that shouldn't." She hesitated a moment, then added " a pony There's idle in the standing stable. Now, why shouldn't you take it and the trap ? You don't look
though
even
DRAUGHT.
gorse
over
ing"
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plump,
a
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and
assented, readily the hotel. village
Jack
ROLLER
Send
" !" she said. pretty Just one reads of in story-books. have tea high here, Jack, the country." tire exploring
it'
like
Wynard
an fields, open space gay and heath bordered the and the signs of human roadway, were habitation few and far between. on The and trotted steadily pony showed no signs of fatigue, but at an turn of the road it shied and abrupt to one side. A girl lay in a sprang and Jack drew heap on the highway, not was rein and descended. She unconscious as he first deemed, and when he stood beside her she raised her head.
was
"
-Castle
onward.
for
of well-tilled
answered explana landlady
" :
that the boy and
jest,
ten miles distant from about and nearly half the Alford, journey was of the made when the scenery Instead country changed suddenly.
Where
of
tion
gaily themj the
less
was
Surrey,"
by
adding
;
the
underlying
rode
with
Alford,
girl
and
laughter not
sadness girl
nothing you say."
as
with
sounded
Maria.)
vent
cheeks. and its
to-morrow
forget
parting."
Binder.
Ave.
the
us
to her
colour
fresh
a
"Let
.
ON
WALTER
'
OUR
"Oh, your
hurt as
in
she
chair.
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