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Cash was tottery weak from his own illness, and he could not speak above

a whisper Yet he directed, and helped soothe the baby with baths and

slow strokings of his hot forehead, and watched him while Bud did the

work, and worried because he could not do more

They did not knohen Lovin Child took a turn for the better, except

that they realized the fever was broken But his listlessness, the

unnatural drooping of his whole body, scared theht and day one or the other watched over hi to anticipate

every need, every vagrant whi, they

were still worried, though they were too fagged to abase themselves

before him as much as they would have liked

Then Bud was seized with an attack of the grippe before Lovin Child

had passed the stage of wanting to be held every wakingbefore he was fit

Christone,