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CHAPTER XXII

|that kind of thing, but there's no was standing uneasily in the living hearth rur, her civeka flushed Sho lind another rag doll, à little harm just In my looking at her room. "I left them alono, Howard. † from the heat of the fire. She was more battered than the one down- Amy had heard, Amy was run and speaking to her, is there? I didn't want to hear Jane with already in her nightgown. Her stairs, and she began to rock it ning downstairs quickly as if to meet an expected danger. She Amy, please lo trust me, no mathor at first, I mean. It's all bed, covers turned down, waited and sing to it in a wordless hum- looked at Jane ellently, without ter what you think about me.

She felt that Howard was melt-it, about not taking her? I won't the low table for her supper, withing which stopped as'Ámy canie right, don't you think? She ments in the comer, and near her was

with a In any pretence of greeting, of wel- ing but she went on to Amy: give Nancy up, no matter what line Amy's chair beside it. Solamn and "Oh Jane, was sho singing?" salú come. It was Howard who broke "You know how awful everything she tries. She put her head wide-eyed, she returned Jane's gaze Amy, excitedly. "Do you know, as the silence. "Jane wants to sed Nancy,"

was for me when I gave her to you, against his shoulder to be reas and because Jane was a stranger tiny as she is, sho ho said, "but I don't and you were so wonderful to take sured. know"

remarked politely, "Ha-yo,' add-tune? The other day she hummed her-thint was the one comforting "She'd better mean it. And I'm ing, after

I Met 'Thoe' I'd been playing for asked Amy. "Why didn't you let I'd never have forgiven myself if want to start any scandal and she

"Sho's

coming," me know you were coming?" She'd have let some stranger adopt doesn't want to take on the cure Ing

Bald Jane, feel-Mother 1" perfectly Idiotic. You

"Do you expect ber to be a musl was terribly troubled, Jane felt, by her. I must have been out of my of a

n child, either."

¿ you're Nancy, I suppose." She cian?" asked Jane. hor presence. And, she had on an mind. I've been so ashamed, so "But Nancy's so darling, How thought, "and why did they ever "I certainly do.”- Amy put the old, out-of-date blue house dress awfully ashamed. I know you ard: It makes me uneney, I can't give her that name! I always de cereal, the milk and tonat and that should have made her look despise mo!".

Such silly- junket table Nancy dowdy and shabby bealde Jano's Cal don't despise you," said Amy. Don't worry. Sho's not going sounding pately. She advanced down in her capir, and Walted to fashion, but didn't. Jane saw all "and neither does Howard. Don't to have Nancy. Not if I have to cautiously and sat down in Amy's have the napkin tied around her this even while she composed her drag up the past, Jano. I know beat her over the head with the chair, which roused Nancy's ex-neck. Then she began to eat, her expression into pathos and plead you had a hard time. I realized it poker and throw her out on the pectance. Supper?" she asked, tile hand holding the spoon Ing, and a little inward Imp de-more afterward. It's only that pavement. Not now, or any time."

"scrambling up.

properly. manded why it was that Amy's Nancy's ours, and I was startled "I'm glad you're here." Sho

"I have no talent for music at beauty never needed good clothes and alarmed for a minute, think bugged him hard. "Don't stir out She was tall for her age, but all, any kind of it," said Jane.

maintain. It. Exasperating!ing you might want her. Of of the house until she's gone, will Jane did not know that. She Why

"Oh well, I believe in environ- she was in her way, as splen-course you can see her. She's just you?"

seemed very small. Her hair was ment rather than heredity," sald did a figure as Howard!

ready for her supper and bed. "Not a stop. If you need help, curly and light, her eyes darkc Amy. Jane would have liked to They were waiting, Jano must Come along upstairs.

give a loud ahrick.""

blue. Jane couldn't see in her the slap her. She was sure that Any. win them, and particularly Howard.

Upstairs Jane was looking at her slightest resemblance to herself, or understood her flat disappointment If she could do that he would. In- Jana arose gracefully and drop-child with surprised disappoint-to Roger Thorpa either, and while and was enjoying it. Amy wasn't fluence Amy. She answered, pre-ped the fur coat from her ment. She had expected, from that last was desirable, she did disturbed now that sho might take tanding humility, "I was afraid shoulders. As she followed Amy egotism rather than reason, that feel that she had been somehow the child. you'd bide her from me. I do want she noticed that the house was no Nency would be movingly beauti-cheated. "Upon my word," she "I'm going to give her music les tu soo her, Amy, That's naturai, better furnished than the first timeful, a small replica of herself at said aloud. "you look more like sons as soon as she's a bit older," Isn't it?"

who had seen it, it seemed to be all her best. She was not. To Jane's Amy than you do like me!" wont on Amy, “a few minutes Howard answered for Amy and books. Howard did not go with eyes she was not even pretty.

Nancy settled down again since every day. She's not going to be, hia voice was cool "It's rather be-them and she was Borry. Sho The Httle girl was sitting on the the stranger had offered no supper, | (Continued on Page 10.) Inted, Jane. You gave the child to would have liked to have him wit Amy absolutely and promised, not ness her admirable behaviour. She to claim her. Now, if you're not wished he had been the one to give going to keep that promise, we'll permission to see the child. She have to think things over! So, could have been so grateful to him. first of all, we want to know if He stirred her. She could think that's in the back of your mind? only of him. "No. It isn't." sald Jane, still my opened a door. "This is, more humbly, "The child belongs the nursery," she said. "And thin to you and Amy. I mean it. I is Nancy. She hesitated, then won't make a scene" she glanced added: "I must bring up her sup up, faintly smiling. "I won't try|per, Jane-you go ahead and speak and stage stuff, bursting into tears to her. She won't be shy!" and clasping her to my bosom andi She ran down to where Howard

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