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 other way. See, it will be gone behind the church in a few minutes. There! stand that way and turn your head to the left. There now! See if you don't begin to have good luck as is good luck."

She laughed a delighted little laugh that was pleasant to hear.

"I always supposed you were all science," she cried.

"And I always thought you were all usefulness," he retorted. "It is a great relief to know the truth about you."

"And I'm very glad you're so light-minded."

She had her hand on the door to goin. Her face, turned toward the moonlight, looked wonderfully youthful and sweet. Mary Anne's cares had after all been of a kind to leave the spirit unclouded.

"Did you ever breathe anything so good as this air?" the young man asked, actually lingering on the brink, as he had seen and despised others for doing.

"It's the spring," she answered, simply. He remembered her attitude and the tone of her voice, years after, when they listened together to the same words set to heavenly music.

"Miss Spencer," he cried, impulsively, "I wish the next time anybody is sick, you would let somebody else sit up with them. It would do them good."

She shook her head with much decision.