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turn if he can, I’ve no doubt. Them for— eigners can’t be trusted—and he’s just as much a foreigner as his parents before him~though he has been brought up on oatmeal and the shorter catechism, as the old saying has it. I feel that somehow- I always feel it when I look at him sing- ing in the choir.”

“ Oh, I am not afraid of Neil,” said Eric carelessly. “ He couldn’t help lov— ing Kilmeny—nobody could. ’ ’

“I suppose every young man thinks that about his girl—if he’s the right sort of young man,” said Mrs. Wilh'amson with a little sigh.

She watched Eric out of sight anxiously.

“ I hope it’ll all come out right,” she thought. “ I hope he ain’t making an awful mistake—but—I’m afraid. Kil- meny must be very pretty to have be- witched him so. Well, I suppose there is no use in my worrying over it. But I do wish he had never gone back to that old orchard and seen her.”

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