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DUSKY DICK.
CHAPTER I.
DUSKY DICK'S PROPOSAL.
"Annie, girl, who is that coming up the spring path? Ah me! I fear my old eyes are beginning to fail me at last!"
"Coming up the—ugh! father, it is that Dick Morgan!"