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THE FOURTH GENERATION

widow; that they had all gone after her back to America.

But Mrs. Donald knew there was no truth in this muddled story, and dismissed the servants in anger. She still spends hours in trying to extract the truth from Miss Anderson's shut lips, which never open upon the subject save to rebuke her curiosity.