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And you con walk?" he asked.
"Oh. yes.''

tootman and bring some kind of con-
Veyance from the village; it is not
very far"
"Oh, no, no." she said, quickly. 81
can walk home quite easily. and would
not give you SO much trouble for the
world
1T would not give me trouble" he
said, quietly but i'll news flies
apace, and the earl might hear of the
accident, and be alarmed on your ac-
count
'Yes, yes." she assented at once. 81
will walk, please
you must take my ARM" he said.
She put her hand on his arm, then
drew back with sudden color, and
he- eyes dropped as she said:
"But-but l need not trouble you to
come al THAT way.
"You cannot go alone" he said
If you will not let me go with you,
there is only one other way; l will
stay by the carriage and send the
footman with you
She caught her lip in her teeth,
and stood irresolute for a space while
one could count ten, then she locke
up at him.
IF you will be so kind she said.
He thought that she meant him 20
send the footman, and turned, a little
sigh escaping him, but Norah said
quite innocently:
ssyKT;I1 1o,, +olI bir, ,,iooro 4bo- 7
will send him any help if he wants
it?"
Eyes, yes," he said, and he gave the
message to the footman ard was back
in an instant.
"You must take my arm" he said,
and though he tried to speak in a
mater-of-fact voice, Their was sus
piciously joyous thrill in it.
Nogah would have declined, but it
seemed to her that it would only en-
phasize the situation, and once more
she put her hand upon his arm. She
did not notice that he had given her
the right one, instead of the left.
For minute or two they were 81
lent as they made their way along
the lane filed with the perfume of a
summers might. Above them the
moon SLOWLY sailed upward thrush
sang sleepily somewhere'in the hedge,
and the bats whirled through the
silver light
No-ah was still trembling a little,
but, as she had said, she was not
frightened. 1t was rot fear thai
caused her heart to beat so fast that
it almost seemed to Ter as if he must
hear it.
The silence at last grew tangible.
almost embarrassing, and suddenly
Norah almost stopped
Lady Ferndale!" she said, in a
tone of remorse. "She will think that
it is worse than it is, and I togort to
send her message"
That's all right :, saiu
wrote line or two saying you We're
safe, and sent it by the coachman.
You seem to have thought of every
thing"
That was not much to think Of
Lady Norah."
And yet forgot it" she breatheu,
with seli-reproach.
"Oh, don't blame yourself he
said. why, the shock alone was
enough to drive everything out of
your head think you have behaved
wonderfully
How strange that you should have
been there," she said. You saw it
all-or didn't you? l mean when the
horses first took fright"
Yes. l was watching the owl, and
saw it go swooping across the road IN
front of them. | thought they would
be startled. 1.-THE color flashed
into his face for a moment-'it IVES
rather strange my being there lie
could not tell her that he had returned
to the spot where he bad seen her in
the afternoon, that he might dream ot
her in the cleaning, and perhaps g9t
a glimpse OF her on her way back 10
the Court. "I'm rather fond OF moon
ing about in the evening. am glad
i happened to be there
$50 am $50 were We all she cor
rected herself. What made the
horses stop. she asked, innocentiy.
"The carriage caught in the trunk OF
tree and the near horse fell" he re-
Piled, simply. The coachman was
not to blame; no one could have held
them from the box
Poor men, she said. you viii pc
able to tell Lady Ferndale how 1t all
happened. and that they were not 70
Dlame?"
Eyes. it will be an excuse for call
ing on Lady Ferndale"
@Ah yes; you viii like her SO
much" :.
aYou have spent happy evening.
he asked. ami mis- voice was subdued
by sympathy; the touch Of her hand
the sound Ct her voice was thrilling
through him. Her very nearness q
him was casting glamor over MIN
SO that it seemed almost impossible %