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"What's that to do with it?" asked Job Martin, and Webber turned with a

despairing shrug to Morris

"For a man who is supposed to have brains----" he said, but Morris

stopped hih"

He ruar, then, with a shake of his

head---"I wish the girl was in it"

"Why?" asked Webber curiously

"Because she's----" He hesitated "I don't knohat she knows about

et her into so

like this, to--to----" He was at a loss for a word

"Coested the more erudite Webber

"That's the word I'd like to have her like that!" He put his thuuerite, standing outside, holding the door-handle hesitating as to

whether she should carry in the spirit kettle which Mr Morris had

ordered, stood still and listened

The houses in Oakleigh Grove were built in a hurry, and at best were

not particularly sound-proof She stood fully a quarter of an hour

whilst the three ht have

had as to the nature of her step-father's business were dispelled

Again there began within her the old fight between her loyalty to her

mother and loyalty to herself and her own ideals She had lived