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 "Could you tell me what it is that has come to you these last two days?"

Mrs. Martin stirred uneasily. "Come to me?"

"Yes; all day to-day and yesterday I've felt as if something has gone out—a light in you, mother—I don't know how to say it."

"I have not been well to-day; the strain and anxiety of the week has told on your old lady mother."

Priscilla felt that her question had been evaded. "'Old lady mother!' My most beautiful lady!" she protested. "Mother, I want to ask you about Mr. Drake."

"Well, dear, what of him?"

"You like him very much, don't you?"

"Yes, I like him very much, Priscilla."

"The Parson told me, when I first came home, that you made Mr. Drake."

"That's absurd, dear. No one makes a great man; he's born."

"But you helped him?"

"Yes, I helped him."