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"Mother, you shock me," said Kate "They come because they LOVE

you They try to tell you so with the little things they bring

Most people would think they were neglected, if their children did

NOT come to see them when they were not so well"

"Not so well!" cried Mrs Bates "Folly! I a around, trying to make me think

I'ood; it's

no ti cotton-mouthed now"

"Mother," said Kate gently, "haven't YOU changed, yourself, about

things like Christ, too Maybe they feel that they have ive back to you, before it's

too late Just ht still, but her flashing eyes softened

"I hadn't just thought of that," she said "I think it's ot to button

up o, when I

know that the first tiainst

Adam Bates and ently, "I thought we had it

settled at the time Father went that each of you would be