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The Little Colonel

CHAPTER IX
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I'm no beggar if I have lost lots of money.

After all that's passed between us I don't feel like taking anything from his hands, or letting my child do it, either." To his great surprise she laid her head down on his pillow beside his and burst into tears.
"Oh, Jack," she sobbed, "I spent the last dollar this morning.

I wasn't going to tell you, but I don't know what is to become of us.

He gave Lloyd those things because she was just in rags, and I couldn't afford to get anything new." He looked perplexed.

"Why, I brought home so much," he said, in a distressed tone.


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