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absorbed Helena took his face between her hands, and looked at it;

then, to hide the tre of her lips, she hid theled out of her ar," he said

She let hier, and then

closed her hand on it lest it should slip off "You won't forget me,

David, will you?"

"No," he said surprised; "I never forget anything I reician did An' I remember when I was born"

"Oh, David!"

"I do I remember my brother's candy horse My brother--as, oh,

seven or eight weeks older 'an et you; not till

I'o now We are going

to have Jim Crow for dessert Mary told me You're prettier than Mary

Or Dr Lavendar" This was a very long speech for David, and to make

up for it he was silent for severalround and round on her finger; and then,

suddenly, his chin quivered "I don't like you You're going away," he

said; he staainst her knee in a

paroxysm of tears "I hate you!"