St Nicholas [serial] . phrey. Themen will not return to-day, and to-night the luggersails. And Humphrey was saved. Before morning,well disguised, he had made his way across countryto a little fishing-port, embarked, and reachedFrance without farther accident. So that strange Christmas adventure ended hap-pily. It was all long, long ago. Humphrey andWinifred and Rafe lived their lives out, and laydown to rest a century and a half since under thedaisy-sprinkled English sod. Little Hexie died anaged woman, before any of us was born. But stillthe beautiful old manor-house stands amid its gar-dens
St Nicholas [serial] . phrey. Themen will not return to-day, and to-night the luggersails. And Humphrey was saved. Before morning,well disguised, he had made his way across countryto a little fishing-port, embarked, and reachedFrance without farther accident. So that strange Christmas adventure ended hap-pily. It was all long, long ago. Humphrey andWinifred and Rafe lived their lives out, and laydown to rest a century and a half since under thedaisy-sprinkled English sod. Little Hexie died anaged woman, before any of us was born. But stillthe beautiful old manor-house stands amid its gar-dens and pasture lands, with the silvery look oftime on its gray walls. Still the armed figurekeeps guard beside the secret staircase, the tapes-try hangs in the old heavy folds, evening reddensthe cedar walls and the polished floor, and every-thing occupies the same place and wears the samelook that it did when little Rafe played the man inthat gallery, and saved his brother Humphrey,more than two hundred years ago. >th. io8 THE LETTERS AT SCHOOL. [Decem .THE LETTERS AT SCHOOL. By M. M. D.
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