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She reached the crowded field, and ought to have made her way into the

front rows near the platforht easily have found a seat,

but Val there was no settled place

for her, kept on the outskirts of the crowd, and at last found herself

on the piece of uncultivated ground which bordered the corner of the

Vicar's long meadow She seated herself on the heather at the top of

the bank, the sea wind blowing round her, and tossing and tuolden curls which fell so luxuriantly under her hat

All feeling of loneliness passed away as she sat there a, and life was all before

her, with its sweet hopes and i with

deep interest to the eloquent and burning words which fell fro at her, the golden

coltsfoot staring up into the sky, the laughing babies sprawling about,

was it any wonder that sadness fled away, and joy and love sang a paean

of thankfulness in her heart?

It was at this ht of her Unconsciously,

he had been seeking her in every square yard which his eye could reach,

and here she was close to him all the time The discovery awoke a

throb of pleasure within him, and with a flush upon his dark face he