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Show "Rawer Call You Muvver." ifffl gnln and you'll tnkc the bad medicine, MMfl Just ns If It were good," 'M I'ntlcntly she werlejA sending the M grateful father flvlng on errands, or M telephoning the doctor to ask for fuller H directions. No man has any concen- M lion of n woman's resourcefulness till V he sees her trying to eaa the life of V some one dangerously 111. Mr. Thomaa I Blrney watched, fascinated, the move- tnents of this highly competent youug woman who seemed never to give him, M a thought except to order him about. I Noon eiinic the nftcrnoon was aluioat spent before the child was sleeping, calmly In her arm, the crisis pa-sed. ' I "We've won I" she announced lo that 9 father, ".-.ml if you win get me n giaea 1 of hot milk I will he very grateful." 1 "I'm ashamed not to have thought 1 of that myself." he told her remorse- 1 fully us he hurried to obey. When he returned she tried to dispatch him to M get himself something to ent. "I'd rather not," he assured her; "I I do not think I could ent. I only want 1 to make you understand how much I 1 appreciate what you have done for me I .'.ml Tomtny.Tr.it. We'll be your de- I TOted slaves from now on and Tom- a u.'s father will run him a doer race, a Miss Woodhurn." M "Il WO mighty fortunate that 1 re- membtred that I had promised to stop V for him," she said quietly. "But I think 1 now tlmt you had better gel your din- uer nt once and then 1 will run home Cjj for mine when you return." II. r tone M brooked no argument, although Mr. l Blrney much preferred to look at the H picture in lur holding bis sleeplnC M ch lil thau to eat. "" Shortly after Mi-s Woedliiirn hnd H her dinner Mr. Blrn y, In illstresa, tele- phoned that Tommy hnd awakened and ras crying hysterically tor her. Would the Come and Stnj a little while j and : h in ti take one more dose of -H meilic'nc? llwJly putting on her fl ri pa, Mine VToodburn started for the fl ritiievs', taking witii hei no old nurse U Who In- knew would stnj wiih Tommy fl for the night, "Von pw utilised n, el" be wailed. M "Von shan't go buck to i'eter; I'll fwaah him !" Abashed, but smiling, Mis ,"ood-- 1 burn soothed the clung lo M I" t ' ....ii inn) over and over - . M n that she would return in the W ling, ami Mrs. Brown would stay J ill lie ennie back. When Tommy-Trot 1 qulett d for the night, Mr. m lu ted on luklog Ml m WooiI- I burn home, nnd It emu thai most 0f M i .. was spent :n telling her shout M .iiuily and his roapecta, as tbougk 9 tilt It ,'lee, s .,,, li.:i (Il ! hoiild be thorougbrr acquainted with hit hiog- uipliy. Next da., be made ihe ac- -xaafl qualntanea of her father and re uti-d i lie atory and much more about iilui- 1 ! self nnd Tommy-Trot. And ns Tommy J i soon learned the way to the Wood- A hiirus' also the neighbors arc wi u ler- fl ing whose Courtship Is the niost ardent, Mr. Birney's or Tommj Irofa, "jjn But certain It Is that Mi-- tiraci tB Woodburn Is to bo the N 1'ear lady T in the Blrney home Jm (Copyright, 1019 . M I ; -: Kts)iptr JP tii Udii '11 J.) nL |