likes you, the same as my father and I do. You may trust me with your

message, Dan."

"I suppose it would not be the proper thing for me to see her once

before I go; just for one minute, with you standing by her, that I

might--that she might--"

"No," answered Faith, though it grieved her to say it; "we must not

think of that, Dan. It could do you no good, and it might do her harm.

But if you have any message, to be useful to her--"

"The useful part of it must be through you, miss, and not sent to her at

all, I think, or it would be very impertinent. The kind part is to give

her my good-bye, and say that I would die to help her. And the useful

part is for yourself. For God's sake, miss, do keep Miss Dolly out of

the way of Squire Carne! He hath a tongue equal to any woman, with the

mind of a man beneath it. He hath gotten me body and soul; because I

care not the skin of a dab what befalls me. But oh, miss, he never

must get Miss Dolly. He may be a very good man in some ways, and he is

wonderful free-minded; but any young lady as marries him had better have

leaped into the Culver Hole. Farewell, miss, now that I have told you."

He was gone before Faith could even offer him her hand, but he took

off his hat and put one finger to his curls, as he looked back from

the clearing; and her eyes filled with tears, as she waved her hand and

answered, "Farewell, Daniel!"

CHAPTER XXXIV

CAULIFLOWERS

"They cocks and hens," Mr. Swipes used to say in the earlier days of

his empire--"bless you, my lord, they cocks and hens knows a good bit of

gardening as well as I do. They calls one another, and they comes to see

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