ess must give way, and
rightfully, before the wants of man; that the splendour of freedom is
less than the splendour of toil; and that it lay in your hands to do
your part towards the building of a future for that fair country, which
hitherto you had loved ignorantly.

Yet, standing there beneath the still, bright stars, Dick did no more
than say to himself, "It 's a fine land! A fine land! And I 'm glad I
'm in a new country, and not in an old one."

Behind him, the door of the homestead banged open. "Dick! Dick!"
called Mrs. Collinson, "where are you?"

[Illustration: "'DICK! DICK! WHERE ARE YOU?'"]

"Dick!" echoed Stephanie, lovingly and a little anxiously.

"Coming, dear lady," he answered, "coming, Steenie." Yet he lingered a
little, while they waited for him. But it was Nonie O'Brien of the
soft speech and the shining eyes who ran down the long path and caught
him laughingly by the hand, and drew him away from his dreams into the
light and cheer again.

LORIMER AND CHALMERS, PRINTERS, EDINBURGH.

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