CHAPTER VII.
THE COURSE OF TRUE LOVE.
Mr.Hope left his powerful opera-glass with Mary Bartley.

One day that Walter called she was looking through it at the landscape, and handed it to him.

He admired its power.

Mary told him it had saved her life once.
"Oh," said he, "how could that be ?" Then she told him how Hope had seen her drowning, a mile off, with it, and ridden a bare-backed steed to her rescue.
"God bless him!" cried Walter.

"He is our best friend.