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want me to take her again.
Then I slip down through the
Pacific to New Zealand, across
the water to Australia, then up
to Hong Kong, and afterwards
I may go to India and Kgypt,
through the Mediterranean, home.
Look here, Ellen Maria!” Ellen
Maria looked.

“Now I am going to make a proposition,

and that is, to let me take your two boys
with me.”
Ellen Maria’s eyes went up and her hands

aa aE went down. “Massy!” she ejaculated.

“JT am in earnest, sister.

thing, for they are all pe-
tered out. They have lost
their vitality, or whatever
you call it. What a dif
ference between to-day and
the last time I visited you!
They are quiet as lambs
now, and sol called them
that. There, the last time
I was here, I remember one
of them got caught in an
apple tree back of your
sitting-room window. It
was hardly a case of inani-
mate suspension, but the

 

You must see that your boys need some-

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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