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necessary business, and carefully provided for the 

 comforts of his sorrowing mother, our hero very 

 soon again found himself ocean bound — the only 

 addition to his former luggage, if one may use so in- 

 appropriate a term, being a rather nervously-written 

 little note of condolence signed " Kate," which 

 occupied, until his return home, a certain left-hand 

 inner breast pocket, where it was considerably bumped 

 against from time to time by a very susceptible organ 

 indeed. 



Twelve months came and went, and the bells of 

 old Rankdown Church might have been heard ringing 

 forth right merrily, as Kate Hutchinson quitted its 

 flower-strewed paths for the old manor house hard 

 by — a young and comely bride. Love had, as usual, 

 scored a win, and even old Ponsonby himself blessed 

 the happy pair as heartily at last as if he had not 

 previously, after frequent skirmishes on the subject, 

 utterly failed to gain Kate's very necessary consent 

 to make a wealthy and obese banker his affectionate 

 son-in-law. 



It is some years now since the events which I have 

 chronicled took place, but our old friends' pathway 

 has been a very sunn}^ one, and both "the Squire " 



