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Chloe did not contest the point further

"Very well, Dr Anstice You know best; and if you think it necessary, will you find us someone at once?"

"Yes I think I know just the person for you" He turned to Tochatti, as standing by, her face full of s resent for Miss Cherry, don't you?"

She did not answer; and he repeated his question rather sharply

This tinor" She spoke sulkily, and a flash of so like actual hatred shot from her black eyes as he watched her; but he had no tiaries, and turned back to Chloe Carstairs forthwith

"Then I will try to find Nurse Trevor and bring her along She will sit up to-night, and then you can both get so Tochatti in his slowered, and he felt a spasracious behaviour

Luckily Nurse Trevor was at hand and disengaged; and Anstice had the satisfaction of finding her safely installed and apparently cos when he paid his last visit to Cherry Orchard late that night

She was a pretty girl of twenty-seven, who had had a good deal of experience in nursing children, and although poor little Cherry was by this time too ill to pay much attention to any of the people around her, it really see, dove-like notes, had a soothing influence on the suffering child

Anstice stayed soest for the alleviation of his little patient's pain, and when at length he took his departure Chloe herself caht!" She had opened the big hall door quietly while he sought his hat "The ether they stood on the steps looking out over the dew-drenched garden The white stars of the jasmine which clustered thickly round the house sent out a delicious fragrance, and there were a dozen other scents on the soft and balnonette breathed sweetly in their sleep

A big white owl flow, hooting, across the path, and Chloe shivered

"I hate owls--I always think theers of evil," she said, and her face, as she spoke, was quite pale