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BY ANTHONY TROLLOFS. Auld Reikie, the name of a house in

CHAPTER LX. le. TROUBLE. “Dear Sitver,—I have got into a most
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Wuen Silverbridge got back to the | awfulscrape. That fellow Percival is here, house he was by no means well pleased | and Dolly Longstaff, and Nidderdale, and with himself. In the first place he was|Popplecourt, and Jack Hindes, and Perry unhappy to think that Mabel was unhappy, | who is in the Coldstreams, and’ one or twa and that he had made her so, And then | more, and there has been a lot of cards, and she had told him that he would not have | I have lost ever so much money. I wouldn’t dared to have acted as he had done, but mind it so much but Percival has won it all that her father and her brother were |—a fellow I hate; and now I owe him— eareless to defend her. He had replied | three thousand four hundred pounds! He fiercely that a legion of brothers, ready | has just told me he is hard up and that he to act on her behalf, would not have | wants the money before the week is over. altered his conduct; but not the less did) He can't be hard up because he has won he feel that he had behaved badly to her. | from everybody—but of course I had to It could not now he altered. He co t | tell him that I would pay him. now be untrue to Isabel, but certainly he| “Can you help met Of course I know had said a word or two to Mabel which he | that I have been a fool. Percival knows could not remember without regret. He had what he is about and plays regularly for not thought that.a word from himcould have | money. When I began I didn’t think been so powerful, Now, when that that I could lose above twenty or thirty was recalled to his memory by the girl to! pounds, But it got on from one thing to whom it had been spoken, he could not | another, and, when I woke this morning 1 quite acquit himself. | felt I didn't know what to do with myself.

And Mabel had declared to him that she | You can’t think how the luck went against, would at once appeal to his father. »|me, Everybody says that they never saw was an absurdity in this at which he| such cards, could not but smile—that the girl should| “And now do tell me how 1 am to get complain to his father because he would | out of it, Could you manage it with Mr. not marry her! But even in doing this, Moreton? Of course I will make it all she might cause him great vexation. He | right with you someday. Moreton always could not bring himself to ask her not to | lets you have whatever you want. But tell her story to the duke, He must take perhaps he couldn’t do this without letting all that as it might come. the governor know. I would rather any-

While he was é thinking of all this in his| thing than that. There is some money own room a servant brought him two | owing at Oxford also, which of course he letters. From the first which he opened | must know, he soon perceived that it containcd an) “T was thinking. that., PAOOR beeht

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