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 turning to Jack, he made minute inquiries regarding his mother's last illness and death, again and again thanking him for his kindness, expressing a desire to show some means of appreciation of the part Miss Kurtz had taken in the vindication of his mother's character.

"I reckon you don't remember Tim Watson, Hernando," Jack asked. Hernando replied in the negative, but his manner showed that they would not long be strangers.

"Why can't you go back with us when we return?"

"I see no reason at present. It would give me great pleasure to do so."

"Oh, don't any one talk of going!" cried Celeste.

"Except to bed," Eletheer laughed.