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"I'm too set in ers We ious diseases, and there is no place where we could be so comfortable as in Florida No," she shook her head kindly but firar!" The vehemence hich Wallie uttered the expletive showed the extent of his disappointarded hi to the sa the sa of ht, but I like to nificantly: "Don't you think you are a little ungrateful--in the circumstances?"

It was the first time she had ever reminded him of his dependency

"If you rate, that is an unpleasant word, Aunt Mary"

She shrugged her shoulder

"Place your own interpretation upon it, Wallace"

"Perhaps you think I a?"

"I have not said so"

"But you mean it!" he cried, hotly

Miss Macpherson was nearly as a: "Possibly you had better try it"

She had taken two cups of strong coffee thatand her nerves were over-stimulated, and perhaps with the intuition of a jealous wo" had soo West The time she most dreaded was the day when she would have to share her nepheith another wo when he answered: "I shall! I shall never be beholden to you for another penny When I wanted to do so for myself you wouldn't letheavily in their ery eyes--eyes in which there was not a trace of the affection which for years had existed between them

"Suit yourself," she said, finally, and turned her back on him

Wallie went to his room in a daze, too bewildered to realize immediately what had happened That he had quarrelled with his aunt, permanently, irrevocably, seeain--he had said it As for her, he knew her Scotch stubbornness too well to think that she would offer it No, he was sure the break was final

A sense of freedorew upon his that had led hiain eat food he did not like because it was "good for hihts if he wanted to and sneeze his head off He could put on his woollen underhen he got darned good and ready He could shen there hite caps in the harbour and choose his own clothing