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He had got so which Mrs Nevill Tyson had never heard

of--" very bad

Then the truth cah Swinny's confession and the

witness of her fellow-servants The wretched woman's movements had been

wholly determined by the move the child in the servants' hall, where the cook, being

an affectionate e food He had had an "attack" the last time she did this, and

Swinny, who valued her place forabout it Preoccupied with her great passion, she had

been insensible to the signs of sickness that showed themselves from day

to day In other words, there had been shalect

Terrified and repentant, Swinny confessed, and becaht with the child wrapped in blankets in her lap She left

nothing for his o softly to

and fro, war blankets (It was odd, but Mrs Nevill Tyson never

questioned the woht to exclusive possession of the child)

She had written to Nevill by the first post to tell hiave hiht

Wednesday came There was no answer to her letter; and the baby was

worse The doctor doubted if he would pull through