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"Dick," said Lena i!"

"Let it coirlie, but I

guess this one will do till you get home" That impulsive interest in

all varieties of huranted that it was a part of our common nature

He looked up with a smile to see Lena's face crimson rath and

shame Her expression sobered him

"What's the matter?" he deed "And she looked so

aaily

"A nice thing for a gentle shrill like her mother's "To play nurses like this to hihty-child air Now, for the first

tiot the s

difference in the ientleman should do," answered Dick; "or a

lady, either Mrs Lenox would have done as much for any baby, her own

or another"

"Much she would!" said Lena sharply "I've been at her house She has

rafts of nurses to do all the waiting on her children I guess she

doesn't let them trouble her any h to have the squally little things, she keeps away from