Stella Rosevelt — page 130: what you’re looking at

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124 | A GLAD MEETING. Probably he wished to consult formally with her husband before’.proposing to Josephine; the English, she knew, were very punctilious regarding such matters. Yes, she was confident, now she thought of it, that was Se he had not come to the point to-night. So, after a few more cordially spoken regrets, good wishes, and so forth, they left him and sought their rooms. Lord Carrol turned and went out into the grounds again, his face grown very grave and thoughtful. ‘I never would have believed it. I do not understand it at all,” he muttered to himself. But what he did not understand or could not believe, the future must develop. : The next morning Mrs. Richards and her daughter left for Yonkers, and the same afternoon Lord Carrol was en rou/e for New York city. CHAPTER XIII. A GLAD MEETING. Back and forth every day from Yonkers, patiently and un- complainingly, went Star Gladstone to her school, glad to pur- sue her studies and music at any cost or sacrifice. This occupied nine long hours of five days in the week, and, weary as she was upon her return, she always devoted what time she could to the white-haired old gentleman who watched her depart with a sigh, waited eagerly for her return, and who brightened so visibly when she appeared. One day, after school, Star had an errand at a music store, -COMmIGbDooks Goi