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"But what DID you do?" cried Nancy Ellen

So Kate told theht to your own letter, when you could see

the address on it, and it here you could pick it up," said

Robert Gray

Kate lifted dull eyes to his face

"Thank you for so race, at any rate," she said

"I don't blame you a bit," said Nancy Ellen "In the same place

I'd have taken it myself"

"You wouldn't have had to," said Kate "I'entleman himself You would have asked him in a

way that would have secured you the letter with no trouble"

Nancy Ellen highly appreciated these words of praise before her

lover She arose i with hi of the kind," said Kate "I am as much

Bates as he is I won't be taunted afterward that he turned me

out and that I sent you to him to plead for me"

"I'll tell him you didn't want me to come, that I came of my own

accord," offered Nancy Ellen

"And he won't believe you," said Kate

"Would you consent for o?" asked Robert Gray