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FRIENDSHIP.

‘Ler it be one of your chief objects in life to gain
a sincere friend. Friendly sympathy increases every
joy and lessens every pain’

JANET’S BROOCH.
A TALE OF MYSTERY.

H, Uncle William, 1am glad to see you to-day;

I am in a perplexity,’ said Janet Underwood,
the young motherless and sisterless head of the
‘household at the Brae.

‘Not about these gay toys? you have never been
running up a bill at the jeweller’s?’ said Uncle
William, smiling, as he glanced at a box on the
table, velvet-lined and glittering with the sparkling
trifles within it.

 

‘Oh, no!’ said Janet, hastily: ‘they came to-day
from poor old Cousin Allan. Remembrances for all
of us, from his dead wife. It was good of him
to think of us. This brooch is forme. It looks very
valuable. There are studs and pins for the boys.
But it was not about them I wanted to speak, but
about the housemaid, Bridget—you know her, the
girl I took out of that terribly poor cottage in Town
Lane. She comes of a bad lot; but she did so beg
me to try her, that I let her come.’

‘ And now she turns out unsatisfactory ?’ suggested
Unele Will, the family counsellor,

‘Not a bit; she is industrious and quiet, returned —
Janet: ‘but Brother Angus is vexed that I have
taken a girl from such a bad home; he does not
think she will ever do; and Roy and Johnnie
tease me about her, and bring home all sorts of tales
about the misdeeds of her father and brothers.’

‘School-boy chatter,’ said Uncle Will, ‘and love
of teasing Mistress Janet. But I am sorry Angus

 

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