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Note 1. Author's note.—"Redclyffe shows how to find, under the surface of the village green, an old cross."

Note 2. Author's note.—"A circular seat around the tree."

Note 3. The reader now hears for the first time what Redclyffe recollected.

Note 1. Author's note.—"The dinner is given to the pensioners, as well as to the gentry, I think."

Note 2. Author's note.—"For example, a story of three brothers, who had a deadly quarrel among them more than two hundred years ago for the affections of a young lady, their cousin, who gave her reciprocal love to one of them, who immediately became the object of the deadly hatred of the two others. There seemed to be madness in their love; perhaps madness in the love of all three; for the result had been a plot to kidnap this unfortunate young man and convey him to America, where he was sold for a servant."

Note 1. The following passage, though it seems to fit in here chronologically, is concerned with a side issue which was not followed up. The author was experimenting for a character to act as the accomplice of Lord Braithwaite at the Hall; and he makes trial of the present personage,