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"What man would risk the danger twice, / Nor quake from head to heel? / Whom would not one such test suffice? " / -- A. C. SWINBURNE.
Not Melicent herself looked forward to the moment of meeting with more eagerness than did the Bishop elect of Pretoria. He had been through many anxieties during his first months of guardianship; and his gratitude to the Helstons was immense. It was most natural that he should look forward with interest to a sight of the girl he had saved.