he invited the terrors of her medicines. By restraining his appetite and allowing half his meals to be carried away untasted, he gave to his supposed illness a convincing appearance of reality. Ev

? Where is it that y

ust all

d listen for her coming. Perhaps her footstep in the passage would first warn him-or would it be her voice? He liked to think that any moment she might enter on tiptoe and lean across his pillow before he was a

's just all over." Her ingenuity in prescribing had been sorely tested: she had never had such an uncomplaining

ropounded. Sitting by her easel in the quiet room, she would carry on gossiping monologues addressed to Teddy. He gathered that in her opinion all men were born worthless; husbands were saved from the lowest depths of inferiority by the splendid women they married. All women were naturally splendid, and all bachelors so selfish as t

oped with him, and I've not done wondering yet Yes, little boy, you may look at me and wonder whether I'm telling the truth, but my father was Lord Mayor of London and I could onc

ddy. "Did he ride on a horse and car

"Ride on a horse! No, he didn't, Teddy. You see, he was called Sheeru

EGY THA

" murmured Teddy, trying to mak

ay with him because he was kind and comfy, and because he needed taking care of m

excitement. "Oh, tell me about the running. Did they follow you? And was i

ars of her audience. As though blaming the little boy for having listened, she said seve

had directly she entered: her gray hair was combed back from her forehead and was quite orderly; s

ther li

y mu

didn't

polite to

n't want to

Not unless you want--

d her; it seemed to have been

ung man. Took me in completely. But I'm

ared she kept on nodding, like the wife of a mandarin who had picked up the habit from her husband. Two fi

back of her head. "Humph! I've been nicely had." Then to Teddy: "We'll get y

bockers, with a counterpane rolled a

thin and the fat man were playing cards. They wer

et?" demanded

Mr. Hughes ans

aise you ten thousa

e fat man exposed a full house. "You

at?" asked Mrs. She

lost-and it isn't lunch time. 'urried into the world-that's wot I was-that's 'ow my b

her nose. "You know you never pay. It doesn't matter wheth

her household duties, she bent down and whispered: "No one shall ever know that you pret

ype="