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Kate stared straight before her, sitting absorbed and motionless

Close in front of her a little white bird sailed into view and perched on a brush-

heap preparatory to darting after the moth While the bird

measured the distance and waited for the rasses, with a sweep and a snap a s, flashed down, catching thetree

"Aha! You bird

She sat straighter suddenly "Opportunity," she repeated "Here

is where I a ht not be another na its way past me, the question is:

do I sit still and let it pass, or do I take its wings and fly

away?"

Kate brooded on that awhile, then her thought forain

"It isn't as if Mother were sick or poor, she is perfectly well

and stronger than nine woe; Father can

afford to hire all the help she needs; there is nothing cruel or

unkind in leaving her; and as for Nancy Ellen, why does the fact

that I aer than she, make me her servant? Why

do I cook for her, and make her bed, and wash her clothes, while