and with only one person to do everything, and that person mostly in the cellar, is quite another. Jane was very sad and lonely, and t

on. She intended to say that she was paying sixty-five dollars a week and belonged to a leading family, and that she didn't mea

hall. The convalescent typ

, doc! Great Scott, man, w

he pantry. From somewhere beyond, the d

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precipitate retirement, if not to a nunnery, to what answered the same purpose, had been v

ure enough the red-haired person was there, very immaculate in fresh ducks, pouring boilin

being outrageously treated, and belonged to one of the be

od it s

far since one o'clock-the more they have the more they want. I say, be a good girl and run up to

, but not exactly caring to raise an issue u

e red-haired man, shaking some cayenne pepper into one of the cu

ked Jane,

ll dose him with this beef tea and red pepper, and he

it showed that he was actually ferocious. She ran all the way up for the crackers and down again, c

up, had floated off to sleep. "The Chocolate Soldier" had given way to deep-muttered imprecations from the singer's room. Jane mad

the treatment for our young friend in there. After a man has b

s not considered good form on the hill-the word

r dynamite is going to act as a substitute. Why, I'll bet the inside of tha

ss the interiors of other people's stomachs. The red-haired person sat on

xtra blankets instead. And I think by night our troubles will be over." He held up the cup and glanced at Jane, who was looking entrancingly pretty. "To our troubles being over!"

rain from town at eight to-night, and if all goes well it will deposit in the village half a

ires being cut, he had sent Higgins from the men's

having some small reason to believe that I am pe

-haired person, who was not bad-looking, being tall and straight and having a very decent nose, looked at

reading her mind in a most uncanny manner. "Why should a girl

and-and impertinent," said

she has pretty hair," the red-haired p

mnants of her temper, scatte

"It-it isn't being a neurasthenic to be nervous an

e you my word, I think you are the most perfectly"-he gave every appearance of being about to say "beautiful

ut just as she was getting her temper really in hand and preparing to launch somet

rresponding ear stood out large and bulbous from his head. Also he was

back firmly, having in fact been kicked back part of the way. He'd been told to report at the hospital that the tradespeop

of the red-haired person. He turned a sort of blue-white, shoved Jane out of his way as if s

evengeful meteor. Jane was weak in the knees. She knelt on the cold radiator and watched him out of sight, and then got trembly all over and fell to snivelling. Th

by the back of the neck and he alternately pushed and kicked him up the drive. H

ite the cleverest thing he could have done, had he known it. Jane was not accustomed to waiting in vain. He must have gone direc

s door, and on being invited in he s

t the furnace g

hat was

ce man

leave him?" queried Ja

im out to coal up. The rest of the time he can sit and th

d Jane, "that we'd better

capsules

something else about-pot

ere's canned stuff. Higgins can pare potatoes, and there's Mary O

g, although the day before she would ha

and Mary O'Shaughnessy and the f

f zeal the eggs were ready long before everything else and the tomatoes scorched slightly, still they made up in enthusiasm what they lacked in ability, and when Higgins had carried

they finished they found that Jane had eaten four potatoes, four eggs and unlimited bread and butter,

ut. The entire town is solid against us-no use trying to get to a telep

ed, and the red-haired person was watching her closely. She had the two vertical li

beating an

to the villag

ould st

ggnog a final whisk. "My people have a summer place on the h

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her father, with the terse hope that if she came to her

on the shoulder. "We'll euchre the old skate yet." Curi

end doesn't drink this, I will," he continued. "If he'd

tood listening. From bel

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aid. "Stomach's gone,

person, whispering something to him. There was a second's pause. Then

wever, hear the singing cease below, and then commence with renewed vigour, and she heard Higgins slowly remounting the

aid Higgins. "Wouldn't let me

e doctor?" d

iggins. "One of t

curious evolution going on in her that she got out the eggs and milk and made

of the men Jane knew drank more or less, but this was different. She would have turned back halfway there had it n

topped outside the door and took a fresh grip on he

nly a misty outline of greys and whites. She walked over, expecting a

r eggnog," she began sever

own and saw the f

ts tumbled dark hair and deep-cut lines of dissipation, the man who had sung to her over the piano, looking love into her eyes,

closing the door put the washstand against it. She did nothing theatrical. She went over to the window and stood looking out where the trees al

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wilful head in the hand-embroidered pillow, and sai