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“152 BEA UTIFUL BUT POOR. when shee Darvon and how you gave her clothes. when she was in rags, and her mother says she'll pay you in love if she can do nothing else.” _ “The love of true friends is very precious, Hattie. ‘‘“And we are your true friends, and we will be 23 sald always,’ said Lizzie, earnestly. ‘‘But come, dear Hattie, they will wait for us. Frank is out in the carriage. He would come along; but when he got here, the lazy fellow wanted to stay in the car- riage instead of coming up. He said Mr. W—— was laughing at him for something that happened last night at the club-room, but will not tell me what.’ ‘Most likely your brother was boasting over his new cousin,’’ said Hattie, putting on her things to 20. | f : “Yes, he did tell him about her.” The two girls now went out, and in afew moments were in the carriage, and on their way up town. They stopped but once, then it was by order of Frank, who went into a florist’s to get four large bouquets for those in the carriage and at home. “Oh, my Hattie! my Hattie!’” cried Jessie Albe- marle, when our heroine went into the sitting-room, where, with her mother, and surrounded by busy cutters-and sewers, she was being made presentable. And she showered kisses on the only true friend she had known in her many days of sorrow. As lunch had. been kept waiting for the arrival of the carriage and its occupants, the family, as Mr. Legare jovially termed them all, so as to include Hattie, left the sewers and their work, and ad- journed to the dining-room. Jessie, who seemed to come naturally into the >} ‘ Ae & sx : ‘ 4 . * yo " DANG soe PA - 7 ple é Bal oe OF +s “hs ; ‘ Ta sf ‘ tla a fis 404 Lh = he SS a f, yee 7 2 « See 7 22s te a tO NT A ae Nit OTP rien AP) ‘comicbooks.com —