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"Nobody knohat that man'll do, when he decides to!" Aunt Carrie said nervously "Letting the poor child stay up so late! She ought to be in bed this ht to be here to listen to her own bad little cousin trying to put his terrible responsibility on her shoulders"

One iteered Herbert could not bear in silence, although he had just declared that since the truth was so ill-respected a his persecutors he would open his mouth no more until the day of his death He passed over "bad," but furiously stated his height in feet, inches, and fractions of inches

Aunt Fanny shook her head in ently "But youMr Dill back to his faain Herbert just looked at her He had no indifference more profound than that upon which her strained conception of the relation between cause and effect see should be the lightest of calamities It is true that he was concerned with the restoration of Noble Dill to the rest of the Dills so far as such an event ht affect his own incoarded Noble and Noble's disappearance e to hireat-aunt of his until his thoughts aze appear to her so hardened that she shook her head and looked away

"Poor young Mr Dill!" she said "If so to hiinia nodded coht have tided him over," she said "He wasn't handso like that, but he always spoke so nicely to people on the street I'm sure he never harmed even a kitten, poor soul!"

"I'ently "Not even a kitten I do wonder where he is now"

But Aunt Fanny uttered a little cry of protest "I'm afraid we may hear!" she said "Any moment!"