By AMELIA E. BARR, Author of "Friend Olivia," "The Beads of Tasnier," " The Household of McNeil," etc., etc.
CHAPTER VIII.
ESAU'S SISTER.
Early on Monday morning the colonel was ready to receive Blair Rodney. The young man was flattered t>y this promptitude. Whatever may have been tbe colonel's dis appointment, he was by this time able to control all evidence of it. He meb Blair with his usual courtesy, and discussed the proposed marriage with a calm recognition of all Blair's rights.
