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Mid-August saw theo Kate had taken care

of Mrs Jardine a few days while Jennie Weeks went hoe for her neork She had no intention of

going back to school teaching She preferred to brush Mrs

Jardine's hair, button her shoes, write her letters, and read to

her

In a rown so deft at her work and made herself

so appreciated, that she was practically indispensable to the

elderly woreatest comfort to John

Immediately he saw that his mother was properly cared for,

syly, he made it his business to

smooth Jennie's path in every way possible In turn she studied

him, and in many ways made herself useful to hie and speculative eyes as he sat reading

letters, or papers, or sht with Kate when they crossed the sand dunes

as they neared the city She was sorry about the situation in her

hoht how soon her

father would forget his anger when he heard about the city ho to take

it She was that sure of John Jardine; yet he had not asked her

to e of it a dozen tier Now Kate had concluded that there was a

definite thing hefor, since that talk about

land