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                             KITTY CARSTAIRS


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                                    By
                                J. J. BELL

               Author of “Wee Macgreegor,” “Oh! Christina!”
                        “Dancing Days,” etc., etc.

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                                 NEW YORK
                       FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY
                                PUBLISHERS
                                   1918

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                        _Printed in Great Britain_

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CHAPTER I


THROUGH the still summer dusk the night mail for London roared down the
long declivity, clashed into a cutting and forth again, screamed, flashed
past the deserted little station of Dunford, and thundered triumphantly
along the level towards Kit