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The Story of Jessie

CHAPTER VII
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Maybe she's hungry; we've walked a good step to get here, and we haven't had a bite of anything.

I'm hungry myself, so I dare say she is.

Hungry, Jessie ?" "I want to go home, I must--I must.

Oh, let me go," moaned Jessie wildly, looking up at him beseechingly; but at sight of his face she shrank back frightened, and the words died on her lips.
"You are going home as fast as I can take you," he said roughly; "if you'd sent word, I dare say they'd have got a special," he added, with a sarcastic laugh.
"I'll give her something to eat," said the woman, without a smile at his joke.

"I dare say she'll feel better then.


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