Alice, I want to buy back the acres of my forefathers; I wish, I intend, that another Buckley shall be the master of Clere, and that you shall be his wife." "Sam, my love!" she said, turning on him suddenly.

"What a magnificent idea.

Is it possible ?" "Easy," said Sam.

"My father could do it, but will not.

He and my mother have severed every tie with the old country, and it would be at their time of life only painful to go back to the old scenes and interests.