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264 only losing his time, and employed in those departments which Jamie had' taken, with a promise that if he did well, and if he wished it, he should be sent back to Adelaide in a year. But Hughie took kindly to the work, and never asked to return to any learning.

When George and Jessie had sailed for London, Amy had many hopes, and fears, and doubts as to whether she was right in to remind her brother and sister of her existence; but as many months passed before she could hear at all, and several more before the Derricks came to live at Stanmore, she heard little or nothing except the same indistinct rumours that had reached her before from Mr. and Mrs. Copeland's letters. Gradually she gave herself up to the idea that nothing was ever to come of it, and ceased to speak of the matter even to It, had always been a very distasteful subject to him, and he was not sorry when she dropped it.