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 Appendicitis l su. pose. wasn't 'it"" Nelly said. "It's what they all seem to have when they want a bit of publicity, but don't see why he need have gone to Germany for it. Silly. call it." She glanced at Georgie's untouched bun. You're not eating." she said.
 "rm not hungry" Georgie an. swered. q don't really want It."
 "pll have it TOT ,ou," Nelly said quickly so quickly and eagerly that Georgie asked in swift concern:
 Haven't you had any bre,kfast2"
 Nelly laughed rather mirthlessly. "No. 1 haven't I'm economizing"- she paused, and washed down mouthful of bun 7ith some coffee before she added with bravado. "rm out of job" M
 "Oh!" Georgie's face was beau tiful in it's concern. But you'll get another job?"
 "Shall l? Good. ess, " knows"
 You mean you can't get ] job?" Georgie asked in horror. "How long is 1t since you left the other placer n..
 "A fortnight: but. don't you wor- ry about me. shall be all right. Tell me about yourself.". az
 But Georgie- could think of noth- ing but her friends tragedy.
 "rfl ask Bishop" she. said eagerly. He's my stepfather. and 1 should think he knows nearly everybody in London. The telephone is going all day. and we get heaps of visitors. He's nice. I'm sure he'll fin. you a job if ask him."
 Nelly made little grinace. He might tell you that he would try. because you're pretty and he probably likes you, but he ..pn be so keen when he's seen me. Men all the same. if you haven't got a silly. dolly face they don't, think you're any good. However. it's kind of you to suggest it. sf, added. Nelly touched the sleeve of Geor- gie's coat. Tt must have cost a lot" she said. "It's better thpn anything we ever kept in our p'7ce. It cost at least s25. didn't it?"
 t4 4f f4n SAT EU "H'M NOT sure" Georgie said, She
 ! knew that it had cost good deal more than the s25. which seemed the height of costliness to Molly. and 1t made her feel a little ashamed. Surely it was rot right for one girl to spend so much money on mere clothes while another girl went without her breakfast? You can have the newspaper fl you ike Nelly said. as Georgie still kept 1t in her ha d. i've cut out the advertisemeHt page. and that's all bought it for" .M Georgie thanked her as grate. fully as if she had just been pre-, sented with the Grown Jewels ,
 If you're sure you dc"'t want it." she was careful to ask. Nelly ate. the last crumb on her plate. following 1t up with loai of sugar from the basin. s :. 1 And now I'll be going" she said. Georgie hesitated. then sid diff. flently. "I hope yon won't mind. but won't you let me lend you a little money. just till you get an. other job" L A | Nelly flushed and drew on her glove with vigorous tug.
 No. thanks; thanks all the same. i've never borrowed money yet, and I'm not going to start: thanks all the same. I'm all right: don't you worry" | But Georgie worried great deal: there was a heavy cloud on her ho- Erizon as she went slowly back to the hotel. Life seemed so terribly un- balanced. like see-saw: you were either up in the full glare of popu. larity or else you were down in the darkness: to her sensitive mind Nicholas Boyd and Nelly Foster seemed suddenly to have joined hands and to be standing together looking at her with unf iendly eyes. | So Nicholas had had his operation land was doing as well as could be Iexpected:. she wondered what that meant. She knew it. was the kind of thing doctors always said about sick people. and yet Nicholas was l not exactly sick in the ordinary fway. ~
 | Her heart seemed to b. straining away from her body in a vain at. tempt to reach him; she wondered if they were kind to him: if they had hurt him very much and. most fof all. if they had been successful in making his face well again.
 ! Not that 1t mattered. 10 her al least he would always be dear and beautiful whatever happened. per. khaps 6 little more, dear If he was al. ways to be the "ugly devil" he had once described himself. II She searched the hotel till she 1 found her stepfather.
 ! (CopyrSohe. 1888, Doubleday Dora.)
 
 | Tomorrow, Clifford Asher U proves useful to Georgie.