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- BEAUTIFUL BUT POOR, 125 CHAPTER XXVI. ‘IT IS AS I FEARED,”’’ next morning she studied the features of little Jessie Albemarle as closely as she could while the girl was flitting to and fro, carrying coffee to the boarders look into her bright, brown, or hazel eyes. She was almost startled when she did so, for she saw, sure she saw, there a resemblance, a very marked and strong resemblance, to the kind, loving eyes which had greeted her the evening before at the house of Mr. Legare, and which had closed so suddenly in that death-like swoon when the name of “Jessie Albe- marle’’? was spoken. While she was thinking of this, and what possi- se bilities might yet be in store for the poor, ill-treated bound girl, Miss Scrimp opened her batteries on our heroine. | ‘“Miss Hattie,’’ she ad: “ve been thinking of -¢hanging my room down to this floor. There’s the little alcove off the parlor, plenty large enough for a bed for me, and my room has such a good light from the east, you can almost feel day when it dawns, and it would save you such a long journey up stairs. oS eee 43 OS ee i 1 ee ghee ET Oe ARR E ; \ rs eee Lee ra tt Oat A ee Be, y* LAT he? “ey > > take it. What do you say about it?”’ tented where I am, and that I would much rather pay my extra dollar toward getting you the silk dress When Hattie Butler went down to her breakfast — and attending to her duties. And once, when she was close to her, she spoke to Jessie, and got a fair | I’ll only charge you a dollar a week more if you “Only this, Miss Scrimp, that Iam very well con- which Miss Kate spoke of yesterday, and which I eel ~ ay eS oe ir Tel , . oF rh > , » . + Ce eh Le eee ee n ll * ) 2 qs % a Me OF Ae te th al > i SEAT Sag ROPES oS RIA GR og one _ -* €comicbooks.com | av¥.. ay Be : og : es : > a hae iy mo a =n <a : - oj