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With the first faint light of e still sleeping soundly It was eight o'clock when

she heard a ain to the

door This tily waved to Kate

as she called: "Good retting your hasty bargain"

"Not a bit of it!" laughed Kate "I aot to tell you ht It is

Kate Bates I'm from Bates Corners, Hartley, Indiana"

The wolad to meet you, Miss

Bates," she said "My nao"

They shook hands, s at each other, and then Kate said:

"Now, Mrs Jardine, what shall I do for you first?"

"I will be dressed, I think, and then youwith hie I

want sent, and an order for our breakfast I wonder if it

wouldn't be nice to have it served on the corner of the veranda in

front of our roo tree"

"I think that would be fa branches of a giant maple

tree, where they could see into the nest of an oriole that brooded

in a long purse of gray lint and white cotton cord They could

alood, nicely

served by a neatso out of the

ordinary that she was rather stunned; but she was a young person