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company, promises to be an interesting heroine, and she certainly

undergoes such trials and hardships, and gives such trouble one way or another to her rescuer, as suggests the cynical remark,

that she was "dear at fifty pounds." The story is well told, and there is never a lack of incident, and sonic tragedy is worked in as well, so that the narrative rarely flags. The adventures—res markablo as they are in coming into one poor girl's life—are well contrived, and follow one another naturally, so that the reader will be as satisfied with his three-a,nd.sixpennyworth as the hero was with his firty-pounds worth. The glimpses of local colouring and analysis of character are good enough to be tantalising.