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A stir in the parlor indicated departure

"Well, you watch the Farue, and note its success and ed "Then figure what it ht do in the hands of--let us say, friends"

"Who's running it?"

"A Colonel Cresswell is its head, and happens also to be the force behind it Aristocratic fa planter--near where my sister teaches"

"H'm--well, we'll watch hiressman Smith?"

"I should say I did"

"Well, Mrs Grey see some of her charity funds"

Easterly appeared startled

"She is, is she!" he exclaimed "But here come the ladies" He went forward at once, but John Taylor drew back He noted Mrs Vanderpool, and thought her too thin and pale The dashing young Miss Easterly was more to his taste He intended to have a wife like that one of these days

"Mary," said he to his sister as he finally rose to go, "tell th the i much about the local white aristocracy of Tooms County, and then told him all she had heard

"Mrs Grey talked to you much?"

"Yes"