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Should she go back to her hoain? The very idea sickened her Never again would she care for that life, she was certain As she searched her heart to see what it was she really craved, if anything in the whole orld, she found her only interest was in the one she was cut off froathered herself together after a while and told Aether they planned how the house should be closed, and everything put in order to await its ht Hazel could not sleep, for suddenly, in the ht of the letter that was left in her trust

It had been forgotten during the strenuous days that had followed the death of its writer Hazel had thought of it only once, and that on the firstreflection that it would help the son to bear his sorrow, and she was glad that it was her privilege to put it into his hand Then the perplexities of the occasion had driven it froht in a dark place There was yet the letter which she ive him It was a precious bond that would hold hiive it to him?

Should she send it bythe letter of her proive it to him herself Well, then, should she write and summon him to his old home at once, tell hie that would seeht be sacred to hie that a young woman should make so much of it as not to trust the letter to the mail now that the circumstances made it impossible for him to come on at once

Neither would it do for her to keep the letter until such a time as he should see fit to return to the East and look her up Ititself about in her mind for hours until at last she formulated a plan which seemed to solve the problem