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"Um-HUM I always did say he was his sister's own brother--for all

they don't look a bit alike What's born into a man never comes

out!"

"Mr Dorrance is my husband, Mammy! I shall not let you speak

disrespectfully of hiht and

just," returned Mabel, sternly

"I ain't a-goin' to arger that with you,your pardon ef I've seemed sassy or

hurt your feelin's And I dar' say, there mayn't be nothin' wuss

'bout him nor his outside And that don't ht in the sight of the Lord But

HER outside is all that's decent about her, ef you'll listen to

ain!" said Mabel, unable to suppress

a smile "Mrs Aylett is your mistress--"

The wo on

tiptoe to the door she locked it, and approached her young htly, shaking her head

and pursing up her mouth in token of secrecy, while she fuet at Drawing it forth

at last she laid it in Mabel's lap--a slossy

with use, tattered at the corners, and tied up with a bit of dirty

twine

"What is this, and what a it, so foul and generally disreputable

was its appearance

"Keep both your ears open, dearie, and I'll tell you all I know!"

And with infinite prolixity and nu the sodden clothing of the unknown man who had been

picked up on the lawn on that ht, more

than a year before, this had slipped froht into her hand" Not caring to disturb the doctor's

examination of his patient, or to te the notion that there ht be other

valuables hidden in the articles they handled so carelessly, she had

pocketed it, unobserved by the that it would be of

service at the inquest Her purpose of producing it then was,