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eyes," l answered.


The word slipped from me almost I'M
awares, yet l did not wish to retract 1t.
She was behaving so nobly and gener-
ously towards us both that l was willing
to do anything to make her happy.
Then, my love- he said, You hear
what Martin promises. Ais yell that
ends well Only make up your mind to
! put your proper pride away, and we shall
all be as happy as we were before"
"Never!" she cried Indignantly. Il
would not marry Martin here, hurriedly
and furtively; no, not if you were dying,
unclep'
| But, Julia, if 1 were dying, and wish
| ed to see you united before my death!
| he insinuated. A sudden light broke up
on me. 1t was an ingenious plot-ore at
which l could not help laughing, lad as
/ was. Julia's pride was to be saved,
| and an immediate marriage between US
effected, under cover Of my fathers dan
gerous illness. did smile, in spite of my
anger, and he caught it, and smiled back
| again. l think Julia became suspicious,
| too.
Martin" she said, sharpening her
voice to address me, do you think your
father is in any danger?"
mo, | do not" | answered, notwith-
standing his gestures and frowns.
Then that is at an end" she said. Il
was almost foolish enough to think that
| | would yield You don't know what this
| disappointment is to me. Everybody will
| be talking of it, and some of them will
| pity me, and the rest laugh at me. l. am
| ashamed of going out of doors any
| where. Oh, it is too bad; l cannot bear
| it,
She was positively writing with agi.
tation, and tears, real tears l am sure,
started into my fathers eyes.
MY poor little JuliaI' he said; my
dariingl But what can be done if you
will not marry Martini"
He ought TO go away from Guernsey
she sobbed. Il should feel better if ]
was quite sure I should never see him, or
hear of other people seeing him."
II will CO." 1 said. Guernsey will be
too hot for me when all this is known"
"And, uncle" she pursued, speaking
| to him, not me, "he ought to promise me
to give up that girl. 1 cannot set him
| free to go and marry her-a stranger and
adventures. She will be his ruin.
think, for my sake, he ought to give heI
up"
so he ought, and so he will, my love, y
answered my father. When he thinks
of all we owe to you, he will promise
| you that"
| l pondered over what our family owed
| to Julia for some minutes. 1t was truly
a very great debt. Though l had brought
her into perhaps the most painful posi-
ton a woman could be placed in, she
was generously sacrificing her just re-
sentiment and revenge against my faith
| er's dishonesty, in order to secure oul
name from blot.
On the other hand, l had no reason
to suppose Olivia loved NE, and l should
! do her no wrong. / felt that, whatever
it might cost me, l must consent to
Julias stipulation.
cit is the hardest thing you could ash
me-" l said, "but / will give her up. Oh
one condition, however; for l must not
leave her without friends. l shall tel
| Tardif if he ever needs help for Olivia
he must apply to me through my moth
err"
There could be no harm in that" OBJ
served my father.
How soon shall.I leave Guernsey?"
| asked.
He cannot go until you are well again
uncle" she answered Il will stay here
to nurse you, and Martin must take care
of your patients We will send him
word day or two before we return, anC
l should like him to be gone before we
| reach home"