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"I a so early," he answered "I slept like a log It is the first real rest I have had since--since I was here before Why, Dolly"--he caught himself up--"I suppose I must say Miss Drake now--"

"No, I am not that to any one in all this valley, and don't want to be!" she cried, the corners of her ly "Even the little children call oing sorasp of her wondrous beauty

"I'e of our field" She showed a small vial half filled with medicine in the pocket of her white apron "His baby, little Robby, was taken sick a few days ago I sat up there part of last night They have no paragoric and I a some over"

"So that's where you were; I wondered when I didn't see you at supper," Mostyn said, turning with her toward the gate "I'll go with you if you don't mind"

"Oh yes, come on," Dolly answered "We'll have plenty of tis It is not far I a and inexperienced"

"And you are a regular grandhteen, with the world on your shoulders"

"Well, I do sees," Dolly said, seriously, "but they are not matters to boast about For instance, Tobe and Annie--that's his wife--were so scared and excited when I got there last night that they were actually har the poor little baby, and I set about to calin to tell you how they went on Think of it, they had actually given up and were crying--both of the for breath I o after so ot quiet and fell asleep"

"You'd ly "It would be a pleasure to be sick in your hands"

Dolly ignored his co alien to his mood and deeper "Do you know," she said, after she had passed through the gate which he had held open, "the world is all out of joint"