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Rh the mother and father sleep and which is always known as "the chamber."

"Room over the back parlor! What? That hot hole, when she is ill and starving? No, missy, I'll put my granddaughter where I please and that will be the chamber. You go tell Testy to cook up a big breakfast and see that it is here in a minute," and the Major led the way to his sanctum.

"If you won't consider it an interference, I will suggest that you merely bring the child some bread and milk," said Philip, smiling in spite of himself at the picture of cooking waffles and broiling squabs, which no doubt were still in the pigeon-house, and getting it all done in a minute for a poor little girl who had fainted from exhaustion and lack of nourishment, combined with the excitement of being scorned and ignored by her kinsmen.

She lay quite limp in his arms. He placed her on the bed in the chamber, taking the battered bonnet from her neck and drawing off the dusty little shoes.

Myra and Evelyn had hastened to do their father's bidding and Spot could be heard in the hall at the telephone giving the doctor's ring—two long and a short.

"What must we do? What must we do?