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"Daisy!" he exclai my hand, - "Miss

Randolph! where is Mrs Randolph, and what brings you here?"

"Why, the train, to be sure, Grant," answered his sister-in-

law "What a man you are - for business! Do let Daisy rest and

breathe and have soive an account of herself See, we are tired to death"

Perhaps she was, but I was not However, the doctor and I both

yielded Mrs Sandford and I withdrew to change our dresses,

and then we had supper; but after supper, when she was again

out of the rooo presently," he said "Now, Miss Randolph, what is

it?"

I sat down and he sat down besidemy hand,

on a sofa in the room

"Dr Sandford, my cousin Gary is a prisoner and in the

hospital You wrote to ht like to know"

"She is ill herself, in Georgia, and cannot coo in and take care of

hiht, his

countenance was ie that for me"

"Can I?" said he "But, Daisy, you do not coulations"

"That is no matter, Dr Sandford"

"How is it no matter?"