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"We're going!" said Allison, again with a co twinkle in his eye "We can't waste all that time; and, besides, don't you see if she coue? If we go there, we can come ae like; and she'll feel we're more polite to come to her, anyhoon't she, Cloudy?"

Julia Cloud looked into the boy's convincing eyes, and her trouble cleared away Perhaps he was right Anyhohy should they spoil a whole day to conciliate Ellen? Ellen would be disagreeable about it, however they did; and they ht as well rise above it, and just be pleasant, and let it go at that

It was the first ti life of self-sacrifice that Julia Cloud had been able to rise above her anxiety about her sister's tantruo calmly on her way It is scarcely likely that she would have ed it now if it hadn't been that she felt that Allison and Leslie ought not to be sacrificed

She never did anything just for herself It was not in her

"All right," she said briskly, glancing at the clock; "then we o at once, or we shall miss her I'll be ready in five minutes How about you, Leslie?"

"Oh, I' her curly hair into shape before the old any-framed mirror in the hall

In five ain, speeding down the road, with Mrs Perkins indignantly and openly watching them from her front porch

"We put one over on Mrs Pry, didn't we, Cloudy?" said Allison, turning around to wink a naughty eye back toward the Perkins house "She thinks you've dared to run away after she gave you orders to stay at home"

Julia Cloud could not suppress a s childish that she should be so happy with these children