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"I'iven me a chance to see you this way Why, Dolly, do you know that dress is siht you were--" Mostyn half hesitated--"beautiful, but this dresshis burning eyes, Dolly frankly explained the situation "You see it is a sort of windfall," she added "I've got enough saved up to pay for it as it is, but if it were not a bargain I could never dream of it Mary's father is well off, and she is the special pet of a rich uncle"

Glancing down the road, she saw the bowed figure of a rave "It is Tobe Barnett," she said "I want to ask hi Mostyn, she hastened to the fence, lance of Barnett as he neared her "Why, Tobe, what is the matter? You look troubled Robby isn't worse, is he?"

"I declare, I hardly know, Miss Dolly," the gaunt e, nor Annie ain't neither She's plumb lost heart, an' I' He said it was a very serious case He--but I don't want to bother you, Miss Dolly; the Lord above knows you have done too much already"

"Tobe Barnett, listen toabout the bush for? Haven't I got a right to know about that child? I love it If anything was to happen to that baby it would kill me Did the doctor say there was no--no hope?"

"It ain't that, exactly, Miss Dolly" Barnett avoided her eyes and gulped, his half-bare, hairy breast quivering with suppressed emotion

"Well, what is it, then?" Dolly demanded, impatiently

"Why, if you will know my full shame it is this, Miss Dolly," he blurted out, despondently; he started to cover his face with his gaunt hand, but refrained "I'm a scab on the face of the world I've lost the respect and confidence of all men The doctor left a prescription for several kinds of e I went to the drug store in Darley and the one here in Ridgeville but they wouldn't credit me--they said they couldn't run business on that plan And I can't blame 'em I owe 'e over the fence, regardless of the fact that the sleeves of the new dress were against the palings "How s cost?"