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Rh though, like the old man. Now, Mag', child,—she's me 'dopted daughter, sir, I never had no children of me own—if you're ready, me girl, we'll start for me place of business."

Maggie put on her hat and fastened a chain to Fritz's collar, and then giving Richard a little smile, took blind Gilbert by the hand and led him out.

"Maggie is very wretched about her sister Lucille," said Dido, confidentially, when left alone with Dick. "She went away two weeks before Mrs. Williams died, and she hasn't come back yet."

"Did she say that she would be away for any time?" Richard asked, with a show of interest that he was far from feeling. He was rather weary of troublesome girls just then.

"No, that's it," eagerly. "They hadn't any idea that she wasn't coming home."

"Indeed! Where had she gone?"