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He mopped his eyes with his handkerchief, as if overcome by emotion, and

the exasperated Nell looked at hiht; but

she resisted the te of her shoulders, pushed

the book and money toward the patient and un Tell him to add that to the

next account"

"Yes, lanced at the clock

"So it is! There'll be a row It's all your fault, Dick Why don't you

go for a sail, or shri? A boy's always a nuisance in

the house I'll come at once, Molly There!" she exclaiuid and injured tone: "Molly!"

"''Twas the voice of the sluggard----'" Dick began to quote; but Nell,

with a hissed "Hush! she'll hear you!" ran out, struggling with her

laughter Five minutes later, she went up the stairs with a salver on

which were a dainty chocolate service and a plate of thin bread and

butter, and entering the best bedroo woy pink,

sat up in the bed

She was Mrs Lorton, the stepirl She had been

pretty once, and had not forgotten the fact--it is on the cards that she

thought herself pretty still, though the weak face was thin and hollow,

the once bright eyes dim and querulous, the lips drawn into a