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"Rachel!" called Grace "Come, there's a letter, a letter from Fanny

herself for you Make haste, mamma is so nervous till you read it"

No exhortation was needed to -rooed letter with the Australian staht, , and

was to sail by the Voluta Why, she may be here any day"

"Any day! My dear Grace, see that the nurseries are well aired"

"No, e, and wants us to take a

furnished house for her to come into at once--Myrtlewood if possible Is

it let, Grace?"

"I think I saw the notice in theyesterday"

"Then, I'll go and see about it at once"

"But, my dear, you don't reallyanywhere but to us?" said her mother, anxiously

"It is very considerate of her," said Grace, "with so many little

children You would find them too much for you, dear ht of it How ot past o I only know they

are all boys, and that this baby is a girl"

"Baby! Ah, poor Fanny, I feared that was the reason the did not come