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pointment to meet us next day on the square where we had met this morning; and then we parted from him for the night, and Jack and I slowly returned to our place.

"Jack," said I, as we were going down, "what do you think of it all?"

"We won't talk of it now," he replied, "we are too tired, and perhaps excited; we had better sleep over it. To-morrow we must rise early, look out a quiet place, and talk the matter all round."

Nothing more but some words of course passed between us until the morning.