events consider that she had done enough to encourage confidence such a reflection was caused neither by nor it was miss dart s way to thread the of the mind of others and track a motive x l a harmless she was ci � s the heir op the ages of the beating heart which if as yet they had her nothing had certainly added interest to a hfe devoid of ordinary they had now arrived at the summit of a great which however still stretched before them what was beyond fifty yards away from the green track they were pursuing was a little eminence devoid of its usual fir crown and mary proposed that while the horses rested for a few minutes they should visit it we are still some distance from our journey s end but from s yonder you will see your future home and what is s inquired miss dart as they moved swiftly over the elastic turf to the spot in question � a bare green mound with on it which time had almost healed it is a it is supposed but if it has anything to do with farmer which � not being a � is improbable it must be connected with some exceedingly remote some say it is s but though they have dug it half away no one has discovered whose it is what did they find in it how i should like to have been at the exclaimed miss dart you would like to be everywhere and at everything i do believe exclaimed mary laughing they only found some bones and what the call implements which it is very difficult for persons to identify with anything particular now here s a view for you i the sea cried miss dart in a transport well of course it is i have not seen the sea for years answered the other in hushed tones how grand it is she stood drinking in the scene before her with content it was really a remarkable spectacle the downs came to an end abruptly and looked down hke a terrace on a garden on an immense tract of low flat land which seemed to grow higher as it arrived at its boundary � the ocean this tract had no fences of any kind but was with there were a few farms on it but not so farms as old square churches tliat marsh explained mary the out the sea from it to the great oi i i t the journey who thought it labour lost if it were not for the tho whole district would be under water but the people � there seems to be no population it is very peopled the air as its neighbours say who do not live there is bad in winter worse in summer and only fit for cattle which feed on the marsh in great numbers but the cattle don t go to church why are there so many churches that has puzzled wiser heads than ours � i beg your pardon i mean mine said mary smiling after the left the were kept up by the of and their graces it is supposed caused churches to be built in excess of the population they are all very old and some of them i am sorry to say falling into decay the same thing is to be seen on marsh that was the colony and where the landed who were to william iii was it not observed the with great interest i d� � e say it was i wish i knew as much as you do about things said mary simply well at and the sea has retreated leaving them as it were but at it has not quite deserted us we are still a port though it must be confessed but little we are contemptuously spoken of as getting and every day never mind said miss dart that often happens even inland we don t mind miss we are very well satisfied with ourselves i do assure you and are we not picturesque observe that while that great sweep of down for the most part only a terrace standing on a marsh the portion of it above is still a cliff as the rest of it once was and look at our grey httle town yonder with its dear tumble down old castle its ancient church built on a rock as it should be and its magnificent hill it is magnificent indeed but it is surely not an ordinary hill it looks to me something artificial � hke this very for instance only twenty times bigger mary clapped her hands together and uttered a httle shout of gratification what does it really strike you so es ti how delighted ia the of the ages to hear about it that is the great test of intelligence with him � whether people think battle hill was raised by human hands or not it must have taken a good many hands and i am afraid you will find yourself in but a small upon the subject a new will however be only hailed with the more rapture battle hill you call it said miss dart thoughtfully there was an attraction for her in the object in question for which she could not account it almost seemed to her that she had seen it before though if it was so it could only have been in dreams was there then a battle fought there it is said so others again maintain it to be hill mr jones our upon it that it was called bacon hill because of its having at one time produced nuts which the swine fed upon and he are hardly upon speaking terms in consequence they rejoined the carriage which pursued a level track for miles with only a low expanse of down on either hand but battle hill was persistently before the mental eyes of the 