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John, it will be remembered, left Mooifontein for Pretoria towards the end of December, and with him went all the life and light of the place.
"Dear me, Bessie," said old Silas Croft on the evening after he had started, "the house seems very dull without John"-a remark in which Bessie, who was weeping secretly in the corner, heartily concurred.