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R. BOLLIVER was written to without more delay, and the paper was sent to him special delivery, registered mail, with some trepidation on the part of Jane. Mr. Bolliver did not answer; he came to Resthaven himself, preceded by a terse telegram. There was a sort of curious guarded elation about him when he did arrive, and a wonderment, too. He came up the flagged path from Chesley Street with the swift, still foot-fall of a dream. So thought Jane, watching for him from the drawing-room window, clothing him instantly with the aspect of a magical messenger. She was not disappointed. She flew to meet him, down the steps, and found his whole manner one of secrecy and surprise.

"You have not waited and watched for nothing, little Jane," he said, and left her 80