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the long.absent squire at the stile, in the usual fashion

which we know so well. There are the accustomed complications, a little more enlarged than usual, the self-sacrifice, and the satisfactory ending. It

is a fairly well-written story.—People She Knew, by "An Old Maid" (Remington), a volume of short tales, somewhat above the average.