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They talked it over at supper, and Herbert was ale about it, as if in some way his wife had misrepresented the possibilities, and led him to expect the assistance that would coes to a servant

"Well, she'll be good and sick of it inside of threeback and want us to take her in;--be glad enough to get a home So don't you worry But what I want understood is this: She's not going to find it so easy to get back See? You o down to- you want Take plenty You can't tell but so ht as well have it as anybody And you ht here and now that if she goes she doesn't co she can't come back if she comes to her senses, and is real huive her to understand it is her last chance, that I can't be , and she knows it, and she's a fool, that's what she is, a fool I say!" He brought his big fist down heavily on the table, and jarred the dishes; and the children looked up in pre up the epithet for future use "She's no end of a fool, going off with those crazy kids Souardian about her Why, she has no ood-for-nothings like that than an infant in arms!"

Meantime the subject of their discussion was seated serenely at a table in one of the best hotels of the great city, having the tiht be antly served, perhaps; but none would ever rival this first tireat of the land and been treated like one of theton was a typical business reat smile He turned his eyes keenly on Julia Cloud for an instant at their first , then let his full smile envelop her, and she was somehow made aware of the fact that he had set his seal of approval to the contract already s she had entertained in the little intervals when Leslie and Allison allowed her to think at all were swept aside by his kind look and big, serious tone when he first took her hand and scanned her true face "I'lad they've picked such a woman!" he said "You'll have your hands full, for they're a pair! But it's worth it!"