r me whisper to my companion? I made a bet with
her."

"You made a bet! how singular! What was it?"

"Only a pair of gloves, George."

"Yes, I know; but what about it?"

"That if you did you should be my husband, dearest."

"Oh! but stay; then you could not have been so very angry with me, love.
Why, dearest, then you brought that action against me?"

Mrs. Dolignan looked down.

"I was afraid you were forgetting me! George, you will never forgive
me?"

"Sweet angel! why, here is the Box Tunnel!"

Now, reader,--fie! no! no such thing! you can't expect to be indulged in
this way every time we come to a dark place. Besides, it is not the
thing. Consider, two sensible married people. No such phenomenon, I
assure you, took place. No scream in hopeless rivalry of the
engine--this time!

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|Transcriber's Notes: |
| |
|Inconsistencies in spelling have been retained as they appear |
|in the original. |
| |
|Page 14 was'nt changed to wasn't |
| 44 double quotation added after ... the wood |
| 72 double quotation added after ... hand it over. |
| 209 single quotation added after ... Captain jewel, |
| 214 "started" changed to "stared" |
| 216 double quotation changed to single quotation after |
| ... frongsay? |
| 223 repeated "in" in "him in in the name" removed |
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