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I on Eustace's accident, Jane Hubbard had constituted herself his nurse It was she who had bound up his injured ankle in a manner which the doctor on his arrival had admitted hih the long afternoon And now, fearing lest a return of the painhiht

Jane Hubbard was a girl who by nature and training ell adapted to bear shocks She accepted the advent of Mrs Hignett without visible astonishht be

"Good evening," she said, placidly

Mrs Hignett, having rallied frolared at the new arrival dumbly She could not place Jane She had the air of a nurse, and yet she wore no uniform

"Who are you?" she asked stiffly

"Who are you?" countered Jane

"I," said Mrs Hignett portentously, "alad to knohat you are doing in it I a smile spread itself over Jane's finely-cut face

"I'lad to meet you," she said "I have heard so nett "And now I should like to hear a little about you"

"I've read all your books," said Jane "I think they're wonderful"

In spite of herself, in spite of a feeling that this young wonett could not check a slight influx of aood deal of incense from admirers, but she could always do with a bita quiet and retired life in the country, it was rarely that she got it handed to her face to face She melted quite perceptibly She did not cease to look like a basilisk, but she began to look like a basilisk who has had a good lunch

"My favorite," said Jane, who for a week had been sitting daily in a chair in the drawing-roo the table on which the authoress's coht' I do like 'The Spreading Light!'"

"It ritten so cordiality, "and I have since revised some of the views I state in it, but I still consider it quite a good text-book"