continued margaret, warming up into her plan. \"he must go to-morrow,i\"m afraid, papa,\" said she, tenderly; \"we fixed that, because of mr. bell,and dixon\"s disagreeable acquaintance.\"

\"yes; i must go to-morrow,\" said frederick decidedly.

mr. hale groaned. \"i can\"t bear to part with you, and yet i am miserablewith anxiety as long as you stop here.\"

\"well then,\" said margaret, \"listen to my plan. he gets to london onfriday morning. i will--you might--no! it would be better for me to givehim a note to mr. lennox. you will find him at his chambers in thetemple.\"

\"i will write down a list of all the names i can remember on board theorion. i could leāve it with him to ferret them out. he is edith\"shusband\"s brother, isn\"t he? i remember your naming him in your letters.

i hāve money in barbour\"s hands. i can pay a pretty long bill, if there isany chance of success money, dear father, that i had meant for adifferent purpose; so i shall only consider it as borrowed from you andmargaret.\"

\"don\"t do that,\" said margaret. \"you won\"t risk it if you do. and it will bea risk only it is worth trying. you can sail from london as well as fromliverpool?\"

\"to be sure, little goose. wherever i feel water heāving under a plank,there i feel at home. i\"ll pick up some craft or other to take me off, neverfear. i won\"t stay twenty-four hours in london, away from you on theone hand, and from somebody else on the other.\"

it was rather a fort to margaret that frederick took it into his headto look over her shoulder as she wrote to mr. lennox. if she had notbeen thus pelled to write steadily and concisely on, she might hāve

hesitated over many a word, and been puzzled to choose between manyan expression, in the awkwardness of being the first to resume theintercourse of which the concluding event had been so unpleasant toboth sides. however, the note was taken from her before she had evenhad time to look it over, and treasured up in a pocket-book, out ofwhich fell a long lock of black hair, the sight of which causedfrederick\"s eyes to glow with pleasure.

\"now you would like to see that, wouldn\"t you?\" said he. \"no! you mustwait till you see her herself she is too perfect to be known byfragments. no mean brick shall be a specimen of the building of mypalace.\"

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