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the door opened, and Mr Lawton sidled in

"Oh, here y' are at last!" observed his spouse scornfully, and rattled

on Lawton nodded aardly, and perched hi suit of store clothes, in which he

unaccustoe froed his head in a pail of water He said

nothing, but whenever Mrs Laas not looking he winked elaborately

and soleh to imply that circumstances alone

prevented any

man's eye at a h the

panto a bottle, then furtively arose and disappeared

Mrs Lawton, reain He had not spoken six words

The door slowly opened, and another ton owned a helpless feeling that this was a sort of show, and

that these various actors in it were parading their entrances and

their exits before him Or that he himself were the object of

inspection on who their own curiosity

The newcoht or ten years old

Bennington liked children as a usual thing No one on earth could have

becoular

but

disposition On seeing her for the first tie of questions Bennington did But she irl!" Bennington greeted her uneasily

The creature only stared the harder