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thousand dollars a year on his niece, this small 

 income being derived from real estate in New 

 York City. 



Miss Grimshaw emigrated to Europe, not to 

 find a husband, but to study art in Paris. Six 

 months study told her, however, that art was not 

 her walk in hfe, and, being eminently practical, she 

 cast aside her palette and took up with writing 

 and Hterary work generally, working for Hard- 

 muths Press Syndicate and tiring of the work in 

 a year. 



Just after she had dropped Hardmuths, Miss 

 Grimshaw came upon Mr French's advertisement 

 in a lady's paper. Its ingenuousness entirely 

 fascinated her. 



" He's not hterary, anyhow," said she. " It's 

 the clearest bit of writing I've come across for 

 many a day — might try it — I've long been wanting 

 to go to Ireland, and if I don't like it — why, I'm 

 not tied to them." 



Mr French's reply to her apphcation decided 

 her, and so she came. 



The train was now passing through a glen where 

 the bracken leaped six feet high, a glen dim and 

 dream-like, a vast glen, echo-haunted and peopled 

 with waterfalls, pines and ferns that grow nowhere 

 else as they grow here. 



It is the glen of a thousand echoes. Call here 

 and echo replies and repHes and rephes, and you 

 hear your commonplace voice, the voice that you 

 ordered a beef-steak with yesterday, chasing 



