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Rh "And have none of them done him any good?"

Nannette began to shake her head in a mysterious way. At the same moment Ellie came into the room, and the nurse said she must be going.

Mrs. Vaughn was sorry the conversation had been interrupted, but she did not think best to talk of Bertrand's illness before her daughter, so she asked no more questions.

On the morning of the following day, Ellie sat beside Bertrand's wheel-chair on the terrace at the château. She had been telling him one of her wonderful stories, and he had praised it.

"You are very clever, Ellie," he said in English.

Ellie colored.

"Oh, no, Bertrand!" she protested, "I 'm not at all! I am sure you could tell me a great deal better story than that if you liked!"