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where a hole through the wall, with a pipe in it,
would let the water off.”

“I know!” cried Willie. “That’s what they called
a gurgoyle!”

“T don’t know anything about that,” said the
carpenter; “I know it will carry off the water.”

“To be sure,” said Willie. “It’s capital.”

“But,” said Mr Spelman, “it’s rather too serious
a job this to set about before asking the doctor’s
leave. - It will cost money.”

“Much?” asked Willie, whose heart sank within
him. :

“Well, that depends on what you count much,”
answered Spelman, “All I-can say is, it wouldn’t
be anything out of your father’s pocket.”

“JT don’t see how that can be,” said Willie, “
Cost money, and yet be nothing out of my father’s
pocket! J’ve only got threepence ha’-penny.”

“Your father and I will tall about it,” said the
carpenter mysteriously, and offered no further in-
formation.

-“ There seems to be always some way of doing a
thing,” thought Willie to himself.

He little knew by what a roundabout succession
of cause and effect his father’s kindness to Spelman
was at this moment returning to him, one of the
links of connection being this project of Willie’s
own.

The doctor being out at the time, the carpenter