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"If it was me that was doin' it," said Sarah, "I'd send for the

doctor"

"Well, but," Maggie protested, "she ht be mad"

"If it was ie retorted

"Send for him?" Sarah said airily impersonal "Oh, it's none of ie asked in a worried way

"I did I says, 'You're sick, Mrs Richie,' I says--She looked like

she was dead--'Won't I tell George to run down and ask Dr King to

coie asked absently She

knehat Mrs Richie had said, because this was the fourth tione over it

"'No,' she says, 'I don't want the doctor There's nothing the

matter' And she like death! An' I says, 'Will you see Mr Pryor,

oes?' And she says, 'No,' she says; 'tell Mr Pryor

that I ain't feelin' very well' An' I closed the shutters again, an'

co If she