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and condemn the proud heart which would not stoop 

 to his manly love, but would bow low enough for the 

 sake of another man's money ? Young Harrison's birth 

 and education had been equal to those of Mr. Nemo. 

 With justice might she not be reproached for her 

 capricious ideas ? 



Mr. Nemo had been very frank in telling Ingath 

 that his parentage was of the humblest, his name of 

 no account. In fact he said she knew him by a name 

 to which he had no right beyond the right which any 

 man may claim to call himself — "Nobody." 



What think you ? Shall I bring up the lost lover 

 of her youth to condemn her ? No ! Ole Harrison as 

 he left Sweena can never come back to it, and Ingath 

 never loved him ; therefore, he could have no right 

 to reproach her for anything more than her mode of 

 rejection. 



The evening before her wedding day a letter was 

 brought to Ingath. It was brought by Mr. Nemo 

 himself, and he asked her to read it when she was 

 alone that night, and he added — 



" You have not told me if you ever loved any one 

 else, nor did I think I had any right to ask such a 

 question ; but if the ghost of a young lover can come 

 between us it is better that it come before to-morrow. 

 I am not afraid, for I think I can ' lay ' the ghost, so 

 if that letter makes no difference let me see a signal 

 from your window at sunrise, and I will keep my 

 appointment to meet you in church." 



Very much surprised and a little alarmed was Miss 



