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pair. They drove slowly along Wilderness Bottom, where the lane passed between two copses. Dick was talking to his companion.

'Fancy,' he said, 'why we are so happy is because there is such entire confidence between us. Ever since that time you confessed to that little flirtation with Shinar by the river (which was really no flirtation at all), I have thought how artless and good you must be to tell me of such a trifling thing, and to be so frightened about it as you were. It has won me to tell you my every movement since then. We'll have no secrets from each other, darling, will we ever?—no secret at all.'

'None from to-day,' said Fancy. 'Hark! what's that?'

From a neighbouring thicket was suddenly heard to issue in a loud, musical, and liquid voice,

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