ort summer,-

as! how so

lker home. They could see that Charlie was failing very rapidly, but it wa

and Meg knew instinctively why he had come. Throwing on her hat

, "The doctor has just told me th

d A

now," was th

!" Meg said in q

ession he was himself unconscious

ome. Tossing a coin to a boy who was loafing in the yar

room with eyes swollen and red, and said

young friends, I'm so glad to see you! Gertie, honey, get another chair so they can both sit down. How's my little cousin

e reason I've always loved this little cousin so much," he explained, turning h

etter not stay in here," said Rob

o. I might get blue. She-" nodding toward the other room,-"has g

o call Ada he would rouse himself and ask them not to. "The poor girl loses control of herself when sh

I'm not an infidel. I've tried to live right. Won't you say a little pr

ces, a prayer which brought the quick tears again to Meg's eyes. At its conclusion

we are poor. We have had to economize a good deal, but there will be fifty thousand dollars life insurance

eart for conversation. Gertie sat in her usual place at the foo

the sick man at last, for, opening his eyes, he asked, "Is it the neighbor-women

that it startled even himself. He nodded as Robert and Meg arose, and sa

he door, when he c

ried, runnin

r,-and little Gertie." As she started again he caught her h

r in to him, she whispered, "I

remarkable strength, arose Charlie's voice, encouraging and ch

n the floor, while Gertie, the child, with an expression of heart-breaking despair, was striving

ould do, for the Masons, to which lodge Charlie belonged, were in charge o

the houses along the way. There was little said between them, for bo

o wicked! When poor Charlie told me that Ada would have fifty thousand dollars, my

said, with attempted lightn

s were heavy, he answered, "There is no n

, and she cried: "It doesn't pay! It doesn't pay