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 It is pretty, indeed, and a style of work which we do not often see; but I have a friend who has some very similar to it,—in truth, so very much like it that it would almost seem that one hand must have done it all. After a while, if you would like, I will bring it in and show it to you."

Nattie said that she would like to see it very much; so, when dinner was over, Mrs. Nesmith asked Augustus Reid for the name on the strip of cloth, which had so singularly, on the night previous, revealed to them Nattie's identity, and also for the metal box containing those other names, which he had already shown to them. They were placed inher hand, and, attended by her husband, she returned to Nattie's room. Approaching the bed, she placed beneath the purple strip containing the name "Augustus Reid," the scarlet one, bearing the name "Nathalie Norton."

Nattie's eyes grew wild, and flashed from one face to the other as she read these two names,