city; whenever he came into the room, her eyes followed him. A sort of wistful, contented expression came into them when he sat down

then I'll be with you every evening. You know my father has given you to

on't attempt to murmur. I shall go to him, but he cannot return to me; and I have got you,

was standing in the passage-the brother and sister looked at ea

d her brother. They went into the garden

It had belonged to the doctor. George was to live with them when they were in town, and perhaps Effie would be able to follow the grea

you had not come just at the opportune moment, we should have lost our mother as well as our fat

ffie, who was dark and rather small, like her mother. George had the doctor's physique; he had great squa

t know how I am to bring

r secrets to one another, but all this terrible trouble seems to have

he replied; his lips quivered-he looked d

d do anything fo

nd you're awfully pretty, too. I know Fre

is

ie, I never thought of you as pretty until Fred said so. I suppose fellows don't think how their sisters look, although they love them very dearly; but when Fred said it, it opened my eyes. Dear, dear, why am I talking like this, when time is so precio

ne what George's trouble was. The night was dusk; she raised her eyes to her brother's face-

e we got to live on

here will be something like a hundred a year for mother and Agnes and Katie and the two little

oor as that. Why, I get a hundred a year now; fancy five peo

should be awfully poor when father died. You are going to pay for your

clare that I'll give mother a

ed abruptly. She saw that George was making an impatient movement. "I'll tell you anoth

I want to get two hundred

claimed Effie. George might just a

tand," she said

o tell everything to my father when I came down that night-I could have told him. It was not a sort of thing to talk to you about, but I thought I could tell him; he died, and he gave me mother. He left mother with me. You know per

Effie. "I cannot an

said George in a frantic voice. "I have got six weeks longe

y-I won't help yo

it, I shall have to go to-prison." G

d not supp