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They had come! They had coot herself to her front door in a tre arms encircled her, and nearly smothered the life out of her

"O you dear Cloudy Jewel! You look just the same I knew you would Only your hair is white and pretty," Leslie gurgled

"Sure, she is just the sa the them inside

"Noho on earth can that be?" said Mrs A to her parlorat the first sound of the automobile "It isn't any of them folks from the city that were out to the funeral, for there wasn't a car like that there, I'm certain! I mean to run over and borrow a spoonful of soda pretty soon, just to find out It couldn't be any of Tom's folks from out West, for they couldn't come all that way in a car It must be soh I never heard they were that well off A chauffeur in livery! The idea of all that style co to see Julia Cloud!"

"No, we didn't coerly "We cauardian--was coht coes And he'd been proet this new car; so we stopped in the city and bought it, and Allison drove it down Of course Mr Luddington one up to Boston for three days; and, when he co down here to see you"

Leslie was talking as fast as an express train, and Julia Cloud stood and admired her in wonder

She was slioldy-brown curls, done up in a knot now andher look quaintly like the little five-year-old on a hot day with her curls twisted on the top of her head for coht frock of some dark silk stuff, with beaded pockets and marvellous pleats and belts and straps in unexpected places, such as one sees in fashion-books, but not on young girls in the town of Sterling; and her hat was a queer little cap with a knob of bright beads, wonderfully beco that Julia Cloud had ever seen before Her -bird's; and she wore long soft suède gloves and tiny high suède boots The older woman watched her, fascinated