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Beautiful Joe

CHAPTER XIV
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I shall tell my cook whenever she sees him to give him something to eat.

This is a souvenir for Laura of that dreadful night.

I feel under a deep obligation to you, so I am sure you will allow her to accept it." Then she gave Mrs.Morris a little box and went away.
When Miss Laura came in, she opened the box, and found in it a handsome diamond ring.

On the inside of it was engraved: "Laura, in memory of December 20th, 18--.

From her grateful friend, Bessie." The diamond was worth hundreds of dollars, and Mrs.Morris told Miss Laura that she had rather she would not wear it then, while she was a young girl.


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