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"Take it off, please"

"You needn't trouble," he expostulated, still gruff

"I insist Please let htiness"

"It will be all right until I can get ashore--and perhaps I'll never

have need to wear the coat again, anyway"

"Won't you allowthat will take er into her palm and there was

a spirit of matronly command in her voice, in spite of her youth "I

insist, I say! Take off your coat"

He obeyed, a little grin crinkling at the corners of his loom After he had placed the coat in

her hands he sat down on the transoers

She worked deftly She closed in the rents and then darned the raveled

places with bits of the thread pulled froood as new"

"A country girl must kno to patch and darn The folks in the

country haven't as s to throay as the city folks have"

"But that--what you are doing--that's real art"