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"I am not afraid," she said "I have just been vaccinated, and there was

already a good scar on my arm; look!" and she pushed back her sleeve and

showed her round, white arm with the mark upon it

Guy did not oppose her after that, but let her do what she liked, and

when, an hour later, the doctor ca

on Julia's bed, with Julia's head lying against her bosom and Julia

herself asleep Some hich sounded very much like "thunderation"

escaped his lips, but he said no

woman's face a look he never mistook It was death, and ten minutes

after he entered the room Julia Thornton lay dead in Daisy's ar which they caught

the words "So kind in you; it ood to the children;

one is called for you, but Guy lovedto

Jesus"

That was the last she ever spoke, and a one In

his fear lest the facts should be known to his guests, the host insisted

that the body should be reht, and as Guy

knew the railway officials would object to taking it on any train, there

was no alternative except to bury it in town, and so before the ht up to the room a closely sealed coffin and box,

and Daisy helped lay Julia in her last bed, and put a white flower in