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And as the little girl interpreted her words, suddenly Ruth knew that what she was speaking was truth, truth she nized or realized till now

The mother lifted her sorrowful face all tear swollen and tried a pitiful sain upon thesill The father lifted a sad face, not too sober, but blear-eyed and pitiful, too, in his hopelessness, and nodded as if he accepted the fact she had told but it gave him no comfort, and then went back to his own despair

Ruth turned aith aching heart, praying: "Oh, God, they need you! Come and comfort them I don't kno!" But soreeted by her Saviour

It was so she received her baptism for the work that she was to do

The next day pero to France, and she entered upon her brief training

"Don't you dread to have her go?" asked a neighbor of Aunt Rhoda

"Oh, yes," sighed the good lady coood co it Of course, it will be great experience for her, and I wouldn't want to keep her out of it She'll ht not have met if she had stayed at home Everybody, they tell me, is at work over there She'll be likely to meet the nobility It isn't as if we didn't have friends there, too, ill be sure to invite her over week ends If she gets tired she can go to the come up to take her away from that miserable little country slum she has been so crazy about I was dreadfully afraid she would catch so there or else they would rob us and murder us and kidnap her sos presented themselves to Aunt Rhoda!