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"I arateful for your decision Pere,

Miss Madeline"

Lena, watching hungrily froe post, noted Mr Early's

obsequious courtesies, Madeline's flushed face, and drew angry

conclusions Nevertheless, she leaned forward and bowed graciously as

Madeline drove past

"If she should marry Mr Early, I shouldn't feel as if I had triu Dick away from her," she said to herself, with a bald

comprehension of her true state of mind For Lena inative frankness in her

self-coure, she exclaimed, "Oh, there

comes Miss Huntress!" and iant leisure to receive her former superior Miss Huntress was a

source of continual satisfaction to Lena, the opposite of a skeleton at

the feast, a continual reminder of present prosperity as coave Madame Cecropia the same thrill of

satisfaction that it still did to draw her dainty skirts around her and

step into her carriage, half hoping that so

her perfections as she had once eyed those of others On the other hand,

Miss Huntress derived almost equal pleasure out of her acquaintance with

Lena, whose littleness she measured, and whose small successes she

looked upon with a person, withh her canons were not over fine, still she had