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268 A Fair Fraud ‘Not to be heard of! Besides, you have no money to speak of. How are you to live there?’ ‘I must do the best I can,’ replied Hester, sadly. ‘That landlady is very good; she.will let me stop on, I am sure, and I must try and get some work to do.’ ‘Fiddlesticks! Howcan you possibly work, I should like to know? Why, you want turtle soup and port wine and all sorts of nourishing things for weeks before you will be fit to walk, let alone work.’ Hester had smiled sadly. ‘I shall have to do without them, I expect. And, anyway, I must go back to the lodgings for a little while ; all my things are there.’ ‘You leave all your things to me; I will see to them,’ replied Marion. ‘I am going off now to look after them, then I shall come back here and fetch you. You are coming home with me, Hester.’ ‘Oh, my dear!’ ‘Now, not a word, please. It’s all settled. I have told the authorities here. Good-bye for the present.’ And off went Mrs Naylor, with a farewell wave of her hand. She packed all Hester’s boxes herself, paid up all she owed at the lodgings, and sent the boxes off to her own house; then she went GORMGIOO oO G' Q) LE