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Jennie Weeks was frankly enchanted

"My sakes!" she said to Kate "If I' ive it up for all

the school-teaching in the world I'ht in

here, and make myself so useful I won't have to leave until I die

I hope you won't turn e"

"Don't you think you're presuy, but there was a flash in

the little eyes and a spiteful look on the small face as she

withdrew

Then Kate was shown each of John's wonderful inventions To her

they seemed almost ht such astounding returns She saw offices and

heard the explanation of big business; but did not comprehend,

farther than that when an invention was coan Before the week's visit was over, Kate was trying

to fit herself and her ais, with no success whatever She felt housed in,

cribbed, confined, frustrated When she realized that she was

becoan keen self-analysis and soon

ad there

Kate watched with keen eyes Repeatedly she tried to is for life, a life sentence, she

expressed it, for soon she understood that it would be to her, a

prison The only way she could i it at all

was to think of the proan to think of

that on Jardine terms, she saw that it would mean to sit down and