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"It's very strange," she said, her cheeks beginning to grow pink like those of a child on her first Christant capers I don't knohat I shall do with you!"

But her eager fingers untied the string, while Leslie and Allison executed little silent dances around the room and tried to stifle their mirth

The cover fell off at last, and the tissue-paper blew up in a great fluff; and out of it rolled a beautiful long, soft, thick gray cloak of finest texture and silken lining, with a great puffy collar and cuffs of deep, soft silver-gray fox

"Oh-h!" was all Julia Cloud could say as the wonderful garment slipped out and spread about over the box and floor And then the two children caught it up, and enveloped her in it, buttoning it down the front and turning the collar around her ears

"It's yours, Cloudy, to keep you war her hands "Doesn't she look lovely in it, Allison? Oh, isn't she dear?" and Leslie caught her and whirled her around the roo square box, and deray hat in soft silky beaver, with a close gray feather curled quietly about it, that settled down on Julia Cloud's lovely white hair as if it had been made for her

"You don't mind, do you, Cloudy, dear? You don't think I'ed Leslie anxiously "It was Allison's idea to get the hat toit; but, if there is anything about thee the"

"Like them!"

Julia Cloud settled down in a chair, and looked at herself in helpless joy and adot such wonderful, expensive things for me I'"

Then there arose a great claiven her life for others, why should she not have sos of earth? It wasn't sensible for her to talk that way That was being too hus quite sensible and practical? Weren't they warm, and wouldn't they be convenient and coht," finished Allison