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"Nobody is sick," David said politely; "you needn't have come"

"Somebody is sick further up the hill," Williaht worse?" Helena said quickly She lifted the backgammon-

board on to the table, and whispered a word of manners to David, who

silently stubbed his copper-toed shoe into the carpet

"No," the doctor said, "he's better, if anything He , which made the old fellow cry with joy; and

he swore at et in to see hie it, so I went up after tea, and

he was as mad as--as David," said Williaorously

"Do you think he will ever be able to talk?" she said

William would not coet anything clear out of hiht, except--a bad word"

"Damn?" David asked with interest

William chuckled and then re laughed at, hid his face on Helena's shoulder, which

made her lift him on to her knee There, in the droarrown people's radually his head slipped froling legs into

her lap, he fell sound asleep

"It isn't his bedtime yet," she excused herself She rested her cheek

on the child's head and looked over at the doctor She wore a dark