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150 crying awfully," he said. Then he got his shilling.'

'And wasn't the Fellow riled,' I inquired, 'when he got to the place and found nothing?'

'He found Bobby,' said Edward indignantly. 'Young Ferris was a gentleman, every inch of him. He brought the Fellow another message from Bella: "I dare not leave the house. My cruel parents immure me closely. If you only knew what I suffer. Your broken-hearted Bella!" Out of the same book. This made the Fellow a little suspicious, for it was the old Ferrises who had been keen about the match all through; the Fellow, you see, had tin. However, he couldn't exactly call Bella's brother a young liar, so Bobby escaped for the time. But when he was in a hole next week, over a stiff French exercise, and tried the same sort of game on his sister, she was too sharp for him, and he was caught out. Somehow women seem more mistrustful than men. They're so beastly suspicious by nature, you know!'  'I know,' said I. 'But did the two—the Fellow and the sister—make it up afterwards?'

'I don't remember about that,' replied