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"Perhaps it would be just as well for you to read this," she said with dignity, and put the paper into Ellen's hands, going back to her clearing of the table

There was silence in the dining-roo on quiet feet about the table, putting things to rights She had finished her part of the argus her sister had just said, and refusing altogether to think of Herbert She knew in her heart just how Herbert had looked when he had said those things, even to the snarl at the corner of his nose She knew, too, that Ellen had probably not reported the inal, and she knew that it would be better to forget

"Well," said Ellen, rising after a long perusal, laying the paper on the table, "that sounds all very well in writing The thing is to see how it co, and you needn't tell me that any man in his senses will pay all that salary merely for a 'chaperon,' as he calls it If he does, he's a fool; that's all I've got to say But I suppose nothing short of getting caught in a trap will make you see it; so I better save o to the poorhouse through your stubbornness I've done all I could to keep you from it, and it's pretty hard to have my only sister leave me--so soo-oo-on afterat her speculatively, "I'with me But I'm sorry if you feel it that way, and I's for the children often, now that I shall have so was cut short by Ellen interrupting her

"Oh, you needn't trouble yourself! We can look after the children ourselves You better save what you get to look after yourself when those two get over this whireat relief Julia Cloud heard the car returning fro into the hall