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and half between thcm-their eyes OK
actly on level-and when they spoke to
each other, it was very distinctly unter
ricr .1uq'n, for the boy at the bow was
almost hidden.
"pappa dear" she said to her father
that evening " he is very nervous man"
"Who -
"Ronald."
"Nonsense He is as hard as nails. He
don't know what nerves mean"
" He is a very nervous man" she insist
ed and had she not been studying him for
whole day y. His eyes throb when
you meet them suddenly. Or rather, he
seems to know they are very powerful and
penetrating, and he does not like to stare
at you-so you can see there is tremor OF
the lid sometimes as he looks up-as il he
would partly veil his eyes. It's very cur
ous. He's shy-like wild animal
almost. And that pretty girl met this
morning has something of that look too"
"PerhHps they re not used to having the
cold gaze of science turned on them" her
| father remarked, dryly.
"You may take it that way"
"Then you're quite wrong, 1t isn't
| science at all. It's an active and benevo-
| friends with every one of them. Ronald
says her name is Miss Douglas-and l
mean to call"
Very well, then" said her father, who
] lett IN : young ldClN pretty ulllCu lHe his
| tleSS OF her own actions.
However, to return to the fishing the
morning did not promise well, the weather
being too bright and clear, though there
! was very fair breeZe-of a curious sultry
character tor the middle Of March-blow-
ing up from the south, and making a
good ripple on the lOch. Again and again
the two boats crossed each other, and the
Nothing yet
And The answer,
Not a touCh.n
BY this time Miss Garry had got to
| know good deal about the young keeper
whose eyes We're so directly on a level
with hers He had been to Aberdeen and
to GLASGOW and to Edinburgh; but never
out OF scotland mo. Had he no wish to
see London and Paris Had he no with to
see America why, if he came over her
father would arrange to have him put in
the way OF seeing everything. And per
haps he might he tempted to stay there
were such opportunities Tor young men,
especially in the West. As for her, she
was most communicative aDoGt herself
and apparently she had been everywhere
and seen everything except Stratford on
Avon that was TO lie the climax that was
to be the last thing they should visit in
Europe, and then on to Liverpool, and
home she had been great deal longer
in Europe than her father, she said. Her
mother was an invalid aud could not
travel; her brother George dodge. she
called HIM WAS at school; so she and a
chool-tellow of hers had set our for Eu-
rope, accompanied by maid and a courier
and had seen most everything from st
Peterspurgh to Wady Halfa. And all thi,
and more she told him, with the blacl
soft eyes regarding him openly; and tn,
pale, foreign, tea-rose tinted face full of {
friendly interest; and the pretty, white
delicate small fingers idly intertwistinl
the buf-cOlored gloves that she had takeI
OF at his request. Inver Mudal Clebrig
Ben Loyal, the straths and woods around
looked to him small and confined on thi
quiet morning. She seemed to hav
brought with her wider atmosphere,
larger air. And for young girl like this
to know so much-to have seen so much
and to talk so simply and naturally o
going here, there, or anywhere, as if dis
lance were nothing, and time nothing ant
money nothing; all this puzzled him no
little. She must have courage, then
and daring, and endurance despit,
the pale face and the slende
figure and the small, white, blue-veine,
to Paris, in about fortnight's time, to b
present at the wedding of a friend, just n
} any one about here would speak of drivin
, on to Tongue and returning by the mai
/ cart next day.
suddenly there was quick, half-sup
pressed exclamation.
= There he is!-there he isl'
And all in second, as it seemed, RoI
7 aid had lung his oar back to the lad be
! hind, seized one OF the rods, and raised II
, and put it in her hands, and himself go
hold OF the other, and was rapidly reelin
Q in the line, What was happening sh
1 could hardly tell, she was 80 bewildered
; The rod that she painfully held uprigh
was being violently shaken now and agai
q there WAS u loud. long Nhlr of the rec