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A Perilous Secret

CHAPTER VII
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Will you ride to Hammond Church to-morrow at about ten, and finish your sketch of the tower?
I will bring Miss Clifford there, and introduce you to each other." This was settled, and Mary was apparently quite intent on her sketch when Walter and Julia rode up, and Walter said: "That is my cousin, Mary Bartley.

May I introduce her to you ?" "Of course.

What a sweet face!" So the ladies were introduced, and Julia praised Mary's sketch, and Mary asked leave to add her to it, hanging, with pensive figure, over a tombstone.

Julia took an admirable pose, and Mary, with her quick and facile fingers, had her on the paper in no time.

Walter asked her, in a whisper, what she thought of her model.
"I like her," said Mary.


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