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CHAPTER IV
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A man and a woman are walking toward me.

The man stops, and places a ring on the woman's finger, and kisses her." Captain Bervie opened his lips to continue his inquiries--turned pale--and checked himself.

Mr.Linwood put the next question.
"Who is the happy man ?" he asked.
"_You_ are the happy man," was the instantaneous reply.
"Who is the woman ?" cried Captain Bervie, before Mr.Linwood could speak again.
"The same woman whom I saw before; dressed in the same color, in pale blue." Captain Bervie positively insisted on receiving clearer information than this.

"Surely you can see _something_ of her personal appearance ?" he said.
"I can see that she has long dark-brown hair, falling below her waist.
I can see that she has lovely dark-brown eyes.

She has the look of a sensitive nervous person.


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