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Helena had gone up-stairs to put David to bed There was some delay

in the process, because the little boy wished to look at the stars,

and trace out the Dipper That accoet into bed by shinning up the ht have called a bedpost

After he had fallen asleep, Helena still sat beside him in the darkness, her

absent eyes fixed on the little warm body, where, the sheets kicked

off, he sprawled in a sort of spread-eagle over the bed It was very

hot, and she would have been more comfortable on the porch, but she

could not leave the child When she ith David, the sense of

aching apprehension dulled into the coh she rose, but stopped to draw the sheet over his

shoulders; then smiled to see how quickly he kicked it off She pulled

it up again as far as his knees, and to this he resigned hi dimly in the hall; as she passed she took it

up and went slowly down-stairs Away froroove of the past weeks Each hour she had tormented

herself by so what she

should do if, when Lloyd came to fulfill his promise, she should see a

shade, oh, even the faintest hint, of hesitation in his manner Well;