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"Brighter!" said the old doctor eyeing her approvingly "But ill your people say?"

"They'll have to letit, and you know that has great weight with Aunt Rhoda"

"It's a hard life, child! You never sawand horror"

"Well, it's time, then"

"But those men over there you would have to care for will not be like your grandfather and aunt They will be dirty and bloody, and covered with filth and vermin"

"Well, what of that!"

"Could you stand it?"

"So you think I'm a butterfly, too, do you, Daddy-Doctor? Well, I want to prove to you that I'et used to dirt and distress I washed a little sick Italian baby yesterday and helped it's mother scrub her floor and make the house clean"

"The dickens you did!" bearit I guess you've got the right stuff in you But say, if I help you you've got to tell ! Understand? I know you aren't like the rest, just wanting to get into the exciteood time so you can say afterward you were there You aren't that kind of a girl What's the real reason you want to go? Have you got somebody over there you're interested in?"

He looked at her keenly, with loving, anxious eyes as her father's friend who had known her frorew rosy, and her eyes dropped, but lifted again undaunted: "And if I have, Daddy-Doctor, is there anything wrong about that?"

The doctor frowned: "It isn't that fat chuht, is it? Because if it is I shan't liftout clear and free

"Never! dear friend, never! Set yourdown "And if I care for someone, Daddy-Doctor, can't you trust ht?"

"I suppose so!" gruirls are so dreadfully blind"

"I think you'd like hi pinker, "that is, you would if there is anybody," she corrected herself laughing "But you see, it's a secret yet and maybe alill be I'm not sure that he knows, and I'm not quite sure I know myself----"