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OUT OF THE NORTH.
It was a beautiful day--which was so much in favour of Mrs.Frank Armour in relation to her husband's people.

General Armour and his wife had come down from London by the latest train possible, that their suspense at Liverpool might be short.

They said little to each other, but when they did speak it was of things very different from the skeleton which they expected to put into the family cupboard presently.

Each was trying to spare the other.