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Left to Themselves.

lecture that dog—and ring the bell and rouse the community, whatever it amounts to, and then I'll come back and carry you into it in triumph. I wont leave you a moment longer than it will take me to break the news to them that they have got a couple of shipwrecked mariners on their hands who want luncheon—or breakfast."

Gerald sat down, anxious, but nothing loath. Philip quickened his steps and went on toward the distant garden-gate and the yet silent house.