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86 don't have to wash up after crackers, but just blow the crumbs away."

"Well, much more of that kind of food and we can just blow you away. She had better stay in bed for a few days, Major Taylor," the doctor said. "Is she to remain in this room?"

"Hardly!" exclaimed Myra and Evelyn in one breath. "This is Father's chamber!"

The aunts had been hovering in the background until the doctor arrived and then they had come forward. The poor ladies were at a loss as to what was expected of them. They had taken their cue from their father in deciding the queer-looking little creature who had arrived so unexpectedly in their midst was not their brother's child and had not been prepared for this sudden change. They were determined to go on in their assumption that Rebecca was an impostor. For once they were of one mind, and they knew instinctively that their brother agreed with them. He had telephoned for the doctor at his father's command, but had done it with a poor grace, and on his handsome countenance an expression of sullen unconcern.

"Oh! I mustn't stay in this room, then," said Rebecca, sitting up in the great bed and trying not to let the dizzy feeling get the better of