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"There is only one person who could give them such information," cried Nicholas; "but I cannot, will not suspect him." "If yor're thinkin' o' Lawrence Fogg, yo're na far wide o' th' mark, squoire," replied Nance. "What! Fogg leagued with robbers impossible!" exclaimed Nicholas.

Nance Holdaway, don't let them deny it to me- -don't let them do it. I've been as poor as Job, and as honest as the day, but now, my girl, you mark these words of mine, I'm getting tired of it. 'I wouldn't say such words, at least, said Nance. 'You wouldn't? said the old man grimly. 'Well, and did I when I was your age?

"Mon Gyu!" gasped Nance to herself, and went in wondering. "She and Tom wanted me to take my old room again, and I refused," was all he said. "Tom wanted you to go there?" said Mrs. Hamon in amazement. "So she said." Grannie's disparaging sniff was charged with libel. "Well?" asked Tom of his wife, when he came in later on with Peter Mauger, who had come over for supper. "Got your lodger?" "No."

I was handlin' Fidy's fits before that there young dispensary doctor was out of knee pants. Besides I ain't got fifty cents in the house." Nance stood for a moment irresolute. She looked at the writhing figure on the bed; then she snatched up her hat and jacket. "Quick! Where's the bottle?" she cried. "I got the money."

"When I went away from here," he began, "I thought you had passed me up for Mac Clarke. It just put me out of business, Nance. I didn't care where I went or what I did. Then one night in Cincinnati I met Birdie, and she was up against it, too and " After all he couldn't make a clean breast of it! Whatever he might say would reflect on Birdie, and he gave the explanation up in despair.

"And that slip of a Nance had been over there last night par madé, some folks have the courage!" "All the same, it was madness " But behind all the broken chatter, in every mind was the grim question, "Who is it, then, that is doing these things amongst us?" And there was a feeling of mighty discomfort abroad.

One of these was stout, elderly, and irascible, with a face like a full moon, well dyed with liquor, thick tremulous lips, a short, purple hand, in which he brandished a long pipe, and an abrupt and gobbling utterance. This was my Lord Windermoor. In his companion Nance beheld a younger man, tall, quiet, grave, demurely dressed, and wearing his own hair.

"Then you run the other way," said Nance; "look there I see him strive to hide a blunderbuss under his coat gallop off, for the love o' God! or there'll be murther." "Never mind me," said Nance, "save yourself see, he's moving fast, he'll be near enough to you soon to fire." "Get up behind me," said Andy; "I won't leave you here." "Run, I tell you." "I won't."

Our dignity as seniors has been attacked and the standards of Wellington lowered." "I don't believe any juniors had a hand in it," put in Judy, "because we are so friendly with them." Nance nudged Molly. "She's afraid somebody's going to blame that charming Adele," she whispered. "If it's any of the Wellington girls, it's more likely to be among the sophomores," announced Edith decisively.

Wallace had said that he wanted Billy, as a sort of side-issue, to live in San Rafael, so that they could see each other easily, and I wish you could see the house he'd let us have for almost nothing! Then there would be a splendid round sum for the paper, thirty or forty thousand probably, AND the salary! I saw myself a lady, Nance, with a 'rising young man' for a husband "