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 put the violets in water and disposed them about the two sitting-rooms. Then she gave the Lump his dinner; and after it she went forth to the post-office with her savings bank-book and paid nine shillings into her account.

As she went out of the post-office, the girl who had entered the deposit in her book, said to the older girl beside her, "Where that child gets the money she does beats me. She's paid in more than twenty-five pounds in two months."

"I expect her face has a lot to do with it," said the older girl with an air of wide experience. "You know what men are. It's all the face with them."

"They are silly," said the younger girl contemptuously.

"Yes. But I wish I'd got that brat's face," said the older girl slowly.

The next morning the Honorable John Ruffin found his room scented and adorned with violets; and when Pollyooly brought in his bacon, he thanked her for them and asked how she had fared in her mission. She told him how easily she had delivered the note to Grizel.

"So far so good; but—I should like to have