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 GEMINI, THE TWINS.

HE Manse of Kirk-Andrew was a severe-looking house, over whose walls of gray granite, no playful creeper had presumed to climb. It had a square, well-kept garden in front, with a few strictly-pruned bushes in it, and two pine trees, one on either side of the gate, like sentries. A sedate white cat of uncertain age sunned herself on the doorstep of the Manse, on warm afternoons, and a red-cheeked woman came to the door at intervals. A tall, very thin gentleman also was to be seen coming down and again going 82