174 THE SILVER FOX 



tell ye of the day I wint to Glasligow to 

 the office, axing him to take back the price 

 0* the land, and he put a hand on me to 

 kiss me; he thought that was all he had to 

 do to humour me. He remembers that 

 day agin me yet. It couldn't be that you, 

 that mio[lit be talkin' to the Lord Left'nant 

 or any other, would bring sorrow on yerself 

 for the sake of himy 



Neither the straining misfit of the black 

 dress, nor the atrocious pretensions of the 

 cheap boots, could impute vulgarity to the 

 speaker. Lady Susan kept her eyes on the 

 ground with a firmly-set mouth, and Maria 

 turned away in the direction from which 

 she had come. She was overtaken almost 

 immediately. 



" I am going back the other way," said 

 Lady Susan. '* Tm afraid my husband or 

 some one may be coming this way and not 

 know of this place, and I must tell them 

 where the hounds are, but Good- 

 bye." She put out her hand in its torn 

 glove ; it wa.s still trembling from exertion. 



