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sitting-room, "did you remember to tell Davis that the kitchen sink

leaks?"

"Oh!" said the doctor blankly; "well--I'll tell hiuely, he dropped down into his shabby old easy-chair,

and watched Martha's darning-needle plod in and out "Martha," he said

after a while, "what shade would you call your hair if it ell,

kind of brighter?"

"What? said Martha, looking at him over her spectacles; she put up

her hard capable hand and touched her hair softly, as if she had

forgotten it "My hair used to be a real chestnut Do you uess I do It's a pretty color"

Martha looked at him with a queer shyness in her married eyes, then

tossed her head a little and thrust her darning-needle into the gray

stocking with a jaunty air "That's what you used to say," she said

After a while, noticing his tired lounge in the old chair, she said

kindly, "Why did you stay so long at Dr Lavendar's, Willy? You look

tired Do go to bed"