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“Pooh, don’t be I said. “Come-— - you must make an effort, and throw off this childishness. You're getting posi- tively hysterical, too !

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slowlv., 1 am ot hysterical. 1 was crossing the com-

mon, in the bright sunshine, and 1T saw her in the distance s she was coming to- wards me; she was wearing that — grey health-waterproofl and hat of hers. She continuedto advance until she was as near to me as that table 1n the next room—and then she was cone !’

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of grass within fifty feet of her, all round. She canished !

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on my aunt’s shutting up the house and going, with Amy, to Switzerland., 1 took them to [ugano, scttled them o a wvilla with a Tovely view over the town and the valley and lake, and away to Monte Caprino and Maonte Boglia ; and then 1T returned to my brother.

His mind was unhinged, and [ was forced to place him under the carc of a doctor. T constantly went to sce him, and we would take Jong walks together in all weathers. Once day we were re- turning from a long tramp, and were hurrying home to avoid a thunderstorm which — was 1m- minent, when T stopped a moment to licht my pipe, and he, walking on, got some twenty vards ahcad of me. The hght was perfectly clear yet, and 1 was starting again with my cyes hie woas notl there!

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