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"And you to disested Julia Cloud, lifting aze

"Well, well, well, I can see there won't be any need of that!" sputtered the old gentleman pleasantly "But, however that is, this is the contract I've made out And I'n it? Of course there's a clause in there about reasonable notice if there is dissatisfaction on either side; that lets you out at any tiive sters properly"

Julia Cloud took the pen eagerly, trened her na down the back stairs Leslie seized Julia, and gave her a great hug as the last letter was finished, and then threw open the parlor door in the nick of ti to be deserted

Ellen Robinson appeared on the scene just in tiave Julia Cloud as he picked up the papers and went up-stairs for his suitcase while Allison went after the car to take him to the train

"Is that man married? Because, if he isn't, I don't think it's respectable for you to go and live near hi voice to the intense distress of Julia Cloud, as happily hurrying the dishes from the breakfast table

But Leslie came to the rescue

"Oh, indeed, Aunt Ellen, he's very ether too much married for comfort He would be a dear if it wasn't for his silly little old bossy wife! But he doesn't intend to live anywhere near us His ho back next week He's only waiting to see us settled sooes back; so you needn't worry about Aunt Jewel's ood care of her But isn't he a dear? He was ayly till the visitor's footsteps could be heard coain, and Ellen Robinson could only shut her lips tight and go into the kitchen, from which her sister beat immediately a hasty retreat lest

Julia Cloud bade Mr Luddington good-by, standing on her own front steps, and then waited aoff toward the hills which had shut in her vision all her life The two young people had rushed down to the car, and were pulling their guardian joyously inside They see creatures let out of prison into the sunshine Julia Cloud s the off to the hills that had been her strength all the years through so o in and meet her sister in final combat She knew that there would be a scene; that was inevitable That she rettable she was praying earnestly now as her eyes sought the hills