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any particular fair one. Here then he was, on 

 the eve of his departure for America, in the 

 happy position of a man who had himself only 

 to please. 



Having made all arrangements with his 

 kennel huntsman, for he hunted his own 

 hounds, Reginald Miller put himself into the 

 nine o'clock train from Bredford to Liverpool, 

 and at eleven thirty stepped out on to the plat- 

 form at the Central Station, where he was met 

 and welcomed by his friend Alfred Acton. 



' Here you- are,' said the last named ; ' tell 

 James to bring your luggage to the Adelphi. 

 Holmes and he can take both yours and mine 

 down to the tender at once. We have got a 

 capital cabin. I have seen the captain and 

 purser this morning. There are a lot of pas- 

 sengers, and if you don't agree with me, that 

 one of them is the most beautiful woman you 

 have ever seen, I shall be very much surprised, 

 and if you have not lost that hitherto un- 

 touched heart of yours before we reach New 

 York, I shall be still more so.' 



