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But he said to keep on hoping, that it was the best nee had had

And in the s were

happening at the house in rapid succession

We had one peaceful day--then Liddy took sick in the night I went in

when I heard her groaning, and found her with a hot-water bottle to her

face, and her right cheek swollen until it was glassy

"Toothache?" I asked, not too gently "You deserve it A woo around with an exposed nerve in her head

than have the tooth pulled! It would be over in a ," Liddy protested, fro around for cotton and laudanum

"You have a tooth just like it yourself, Miss Rachel," she whi to take it out for years"

There was no laudanum, and Liddy made a terrible fuss when I proposed

carbolic acid, just because I had put too much on the cotton once and

burned her mouth I'm sure it never did her any per on liquid diet had been a

splendid rest for her stomach But she would have none of the acid,

and she kept ot up and went to

Gertrude's door To my surprise, it was locked

I went around by the hall and into her bedrooown and night-dress lay ready in the

little room next, but Gertrude was not there She had not undressed