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A PAIR OF BLUE EYES. the operation at told the

Lord Luxellian then

all.

coachman

to drive on, Hfted his

hat,

smiled a smJle that missed

and

alighted

bowed

on

19

mark

who

stranger,

total

a

its

Lord Luxellian

in bewilderment.

looked long at Elfride.

The look was a manly, open, and genuine look of admiration

a

momentary

tri-

bute of a kind which any honest English-

man might have

paid to fairness without

being ashamed of the feeling, or permitting it

to encroach in the slightest degree

his emotional obligations as a

upon

husband and

Then Lord Luxellian

head of a family.

turned away, and walked musingly to the

upper end of the promenade. Mr. Swancourt had alighted at the same time with Elfride,

Row for

Now

over to the

a few minutes to speak to a friend

he recognised there left sole

crossing

and

his wife

was thus

tenant of the carriage. whilst this

little

act

had been

course of performance, there stood

in

among