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One day she received a card froirl who had

married out of Carley's set, and had been ostracized She was living

down on Long Island, at a little country place na of an inventor He worked hard A

baby boy had just come to thester?

That was a strong and trenchant call Carley went She found indeed a

country village, and on the outskirts of it a little cottage that reen was on vines and trees

Her old schoolht-eyed, and happy She saw

in Carley no change--a fact that somehow rebounded sweetly on Carley's

consciousness Elsie prattled of herself and her husband and how they

had worked to earn this little home, and then the baby

When Carley saw the adorable dark-eyed, pink-toed, curly-fisted baby she

understood Elsie's happiness and reveled in it When she felt the soft,

warainst her breast, then she

absorbed soth What were the

trivial, sordid, and selfish feelings that kept her in tu emotion? Had she the secret in her arms? Babies and

Carley had never becos

that were usually the result of chance But Elsie's baby nestled to