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The pleasant aro in the air when "Guardy Lud" woke up and looked about the old-fashioned room with a sense of satisfaction The very pictures on the walls rested him, they reminded hi that old-fashioned things were best, and in spite of the fact that he owned a house most different from this one himself and knew that his ould not for a s about unless they were so old-fashioned that they had beco that a wos would be the very best kind to mother these orphan children who had been left on his helpless hands He would have loved to take them to his heart and his home; but his as not so reat burden froht leave the tihted with the crisp brown sausages, fried potatoes, and buckwheats with real hed, and ate, and told stories with the children, and kept the old dining-roo with joy as they had not resounded within the memory of Julia Cloud Then suddenly the door opened, and there stood Ellen Robinson, disapproval and hauteur written in every line of her unpleasant face! One could hardly iine how those two, Julia and Ellen, could possibly be sisters

Disht a pallor to her cheek How had she forgotten Ellen? What a fool she had been to tell Ellen to co! But she had not realized that Mr Luddington would be willing to coht She had supposed that the arrangements would be lance at the kind, strong face of the white-haired e Ellen could not really spoil their plans with hiood, and with hiu forth

So she rose with a natural ease, and introduced her "My sister Mrs Robinson, Mr Luddington"; and Ellen stiffly and still disapprovingly acknowledged the introduction

"I won't interrupt," she said disagreeably "I's" And she turned to the back stairway, and went up, closing the door behind her