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He worked hard;him one day in the

winter that folloas shocked at his haggard face

"Better take a little ti to

Miaood this year"

"Can't very well take a holiday just now Too much to do, Terry"

Old Terry went home and told his wife

"Looks like the devil," he said "He'll go down sick one of these days

I suppose it's no use telling Natalie"

"None whatever," said Mrs Terry "And, anyhow, it's a thing I shouldn't

care to tell Natalie"

"What do you mean, not care to tell Natalie?"

"Hard work doesn't et how to sh If you ?"

"That's only part of it," said Mrs Terry, sagely, and relapsed into

one of the poignant silences that drove old Terry to a perfect frenzy of

curiosity

Then, in January of 1918, a crisis came to Clayton and Natalie Spencer

Graham ounded