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 "What paper, my dear? Oh! I beg your pardon, I had forgotten all about it. I was looking out a most interesting report on the Church Missions to Central Africa, to which you may like to subscribe. Ah, here it is; my name and subscription are made a little too prominent; I wished to have been put down merely as a 'friend,' but the Committee attached more weight to my name than it deserves. So here is one paper for another. Exchange is no robbery, Miss Rachel," and he sauntered carefully out of the room.

"Oh! what is truth? and where is it?" thought Rachel; "could he really be so calm if he were attempting to rob me? I will think no more," and she went up to dress for a large party.