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HE MAKES A GALLANT CONQUEST.
Gaston let himself drift.

The game of love and marriage is exciting, the girl was affectionate and admiring, the world was genial, and all things came his way.

Towards the end of the hunting season Captain Maudsley had an accident.

It would prevent him riding to hounds again, and at his suggestion, backed by Lord Dunfolly and Lord Dargan, Gaston became Master of the Hounds.