CHAPTER Iv.

THE POOR WOMAN'S STORY.

T an early hour on the following

 

| morning the poor woman presented
herself at the lady’s door. She had too
long been eager for work to neglect an op-
portunity for securing some. She was at
once shown into a pleasant-looking room in
the second story, where she found the lady
alone. She welcomed her kindly, and then -
paid | :

«¢¢T do not usually interest myself so
much in strangers, but I have been so much
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