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Rh "You said you liked the place and the work, George;" said Jessie.

"So I do, and I'll like the next place I'll go to as well, I suppose. I am a rover; there is no dependence to be put on me."

"Your year's up next month," said Allan; "but I never thought of your leaving us. My father does not easily part with his men I hope he will be able to persuade you to stay."

"I think not," said George, and it appeared as if no persuasion could have any effect with him. He had never stayed more than a year at any place all the years he had been in the colonies, and though the entreaties of the family made him uncomfortable they did not make him change his mind. Allan, who though nobody could withstand Amy, begged her to try her powers of persuasion. The purchase of Gundabook appeared so desirable, that Hugh Lindsay was determined to go through with it even though he feared that he must send Allan there, and so lose his society and check his studies, which were now going on so satisfactorily to himself that he was again cheerful and helpful, and almost indispensable.

Hugh Lindsay was a man who had never lost an opportunity of making money. He never had capital lying idle or a man in his employment who had not full work. His own run was now