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"I should like to help you," said the girl, "but I ht, and if I find a place I , and have nowhere to stay overnight"

The troubled look flitted across the woot the better of her

"I suppose my husband would think I was crazy to do it," she said aloud, "but I just can't help trusting you Suppose you come and stay with me to-day and to-morrow, and help ht at my house and sleep in the cook's rooive you a recoood place anywhere without it, not froht to be worth a couple of days' work to you I'd pay you so besides, but I really can't afford it, for the washerwooes out to cook; but if you get your board and lodging and a reference, that ought to pay you"

"You are very kind," said the girl "I shall be glad to do that"

"When will you coo after your things?"

"I haven't any things but these," she said sih for your dinner party I have a little ood many miles away, and I was in desperate straits and had to leave it"

"H'ht the kindly little wohing it If I could only hold on to her and train her, shewhat John will say I won't tell hi about her, if I can help it, till the dinner is over"

Aloud she said: "Oh, that won't be necessary I've got a white apron I'll lend you--perhaps I'll give it to you if you do your ell Then we can fix up soed handkerchief, and you'll look fine I'd rather do that and have you co is at sixes at sevens Betty went off without washing the breakfast dishes You can wash dishes, any way"