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Orders received, the i on the instant, when

she stopped him with a little cry: "But you haven't any umbrella!" And she

forced her own, a slender wand, upon hiht

handle and its fabric was of glistening silk The foreman, unable to

decline it, thanked her aardly, and, as she turned to speak to Fisbee,

bolted out of the door and ran down the steps without unfolding the

umbrella; and as he made for Mr Martin's e "Prince Albert," determined that not a drop of

water should touch and ruin so delicate a thing Thus he carried it,

trius of that day

When he had gone the editor laid her hand on Fisbee's arm "Dear," she

said, "do you think you would take cold if you went over to the hotel and

made a note of all the arrivals for the last week--and the departures,

too? I noticed that Mr Harkless always filled two or three--sticks, isn't

it?--with thes about them, and somehow it 'read' very nicely

You must ask the landlord all about them; and, if there aren't any, we can

take up the sa the dull times, just as he used