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"So Sister Theresa's ill!" I began, seeing that Bates

had nearly finished, and glancing with soes of a dreary work on English

cathedrals that had put me to sleep the day before

"She's been quite uncomfortable, sir; but they hope

to see her out in a few days!"

"That's good; I'lad to hear it"

"Yes, sir I think we naturally feel interested, being

neighbors And Ferguson says that Miss Devereux's devotion

to her aunt is quite touching"

I stood up straight and stared at Bates' back-he was

trying to stop the rattle which the wind had set up in

one of the s

"Miss Devereux!" I laughed outright

"That's the name, sir,-rather odd, I should call it"

"Yes, it is rather odd," I said, co to the narandfather's will: Should he fail to coeneral estate, and become, without

reservation, and without necessity for any process of

law, the property, absolutely, of Marian Devereux, of the

County and State of New York

"Your grandfather was very fond of her, sir She

and Sister Theresa were abroad at the time he died It

was my sorrowful duty to tell them the sad news in New