"
Hardin embraced him. "Can I do anything for you, and why are you
here?"
Little told his story. Hardin asked to see the rope. Then he
examined it carefully.
"Ah, this was cut, not broken!"
"With a knife?" asked Little.
"No. Observe both sides are equally indented. It was done with a
SCISSORS!"
"Just Heaven!" gasped Little. "Therese!"
CHAPTER XI.
Little returned to London. Passing through London one day he met a
dog-fancier. "Buy a nice poodle, sir?"
Something in the animal attracted his attention. "Fido!" he
gasped.
The dog yelped.
Little bought him. On taking off his collar a piece of paper
rustled to the floor. He knew the handwriting and kissed it. It
ran:--
"TO THE HON. AUGUSTUS RABY--I cannot marry you. If I marry any
one" (sly puss) "it will be the man who has twice saved my life,--
Professor Little.
"CAROLINE COVENTRY."
And she did.
LOTHAW;
OR,
THE ADVENTURES OF A YOUNG GENTLEMAN IN SEARCH OF A RELIGION.
BY MR. BENJAMINS.
CHAPTER I.
"I remember him a little boy," said the Duchess. "His mother was a
dear friend of mine; you know she was one of my bridesmaids."
"And you have never seen him since, mamma?" asked the oldest
married daughter, who did not look a day older than her mother.
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