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She rose, and began to feel about for her cloak that had fallen across

the ar, and Dr

Lavendar found it for her and gently put it over her shoulders

"I will go away," she said, "but I ood-by to his down to you to-s!"

"Very well"

He lighted a lantern for her, butas an escort Yet when he let her go away into the

rainy darkness, he stood in the doorway a long while, looking after

her Then he went back to the study, to pace up and down, up and down

Twice he stopped and looked out of the , and then at the clock

But each time he put the iht before he took his lamp and went up-stairs; at

David's door he hesitated, and then went in The little boy was lying

curled up like a puppy, his face al red under the soft thatch of hair Dr Lavendar, shading

his la ti, the old ht, flickering up on his

face, deepened the lines of age and of other people's troubles By and

by he stooped down, and gently laid his old palm upon the little head

When he lifted himself up his face was full of peace