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JjCSS"1!?.---. -- :y - ' ton Oh, I- beg your pardon ! I'd quite forgotten for tHe moment."' "Ppn't mind meF I prided my self that my sarcasm hid my pain. "Anyhow, you had better hear the .gossip from me. She is his cousin, the cause of the misunder standing between you and Harry. She had money, and persnaded fPapa Trenton that Harry's .pros pects would be ruined if he did not marry her.-" I was induced to oblige Peggy, and that same night, veiled heav ily, entered the hall where, the fair was in progress and' disappeared within my tent. "Now, .Olive," cautioned Peggy,- "speak in a whisper; this will add to the mystery and disguise your voice." ?eggy purposely called each one jwho entered, -by name. Peo ple came quickly, and . after my first confusion I felt cool enough. L amazed all by my accurate des cription of-incidents in their lives, and -was getting on merrily when I heard Peggy call qut: , m ."Won't you walk in, Harry? Oh, sur.ely you will ! I assure you 'the-sibyl will give you ai marvel ous reading"." " She -haggled for some time before I heard him say: "Well, to please you, I will go in." -Then-the curtain was pushed aside in his own impatient wayr "Where are you, seventh daughter?" "Hit'her!"Iwhisperedr He approached and placed his warm palm over mine. "Go ahead' he ordered, care lesslx ' " - L ' K " 'For' a moment I was speech less at the touch of his beloved khand. I longed to fall on his neck; to blot out the terrible two years with a torrent of weeping. "Why don'jt you say some thing?" he asked uneasily. "I was looking into your past," J. 'whispered. Then I proceeded to give an accurate account of meddling France's, and I daresay had him puzzled. - - t "You are not at all happy; you have not been for two years I went on in a deepeniwhisper. ' "My soul, this is 'marvelous !" he exclaimed in a low tone. "You are," I continued, in my natural voice, "about to become engaged to the jvqman who un dermined your happiness. Is this not so?" He did not utter, a word fpf a full minute, nor could I articu late. 'Then I felt both my hands seized, I was drawn forward im peratively inta Harry's arms, his jips were on mine. We kissed wildly many times, then he said in a shaking voice: - - "You hu&bug, sibyl, darling ph, Olive, Olive!" - "Isn't everything all right now?" I'soothed. "Yes, yes, but those wasted years " But I was flawlessly happy the past was only .a memory. I told him so.. He-gav,e a tender laugh, v ' - vv - "That is the way of a maid," he said. "The Suffragetts are having smashing! old -time-in' Lunno'n, '-'