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_ have brought her first to their trysting place;
but no Pegsy was there. Then she thought
it was a mercy that Peggy did not see Terence
in his present excited state. He kept. re-
peating —‘“‘If I lave syou now, Mary, Ill

never come back. Ill take my oath to it.”
“You had better take yourself off!” said
a policeman, wearied with having nothing to
do. ‘lve watched you annoying this young
person for some time; and a man’s no man
who forces his company on a woman. Walk
on.” | ei

Terence replied to the admonition with
an oath, and at the same moment dealt him
an unscientific but a telling plow. The po-
liceman returned it, and in a moment there
was that delight of the London roughs—
a street row— from which poor Mary, terri-
fied and panting, quickly escaped to the steps
of the National Gallery, from whence she saw

- Terence, after much resistance, marched: off

in a circle of policemen.