Can't you spare Lulu ?" Mrs.Worthington did not know, but 'Lina, to whom Lulu was a kind of waiting maid, took the matter up alone, and said: "Indeed they couldn't.

There was no one at Spring Bank more useful, and it was preposterous for Hugh to think of giving their best servant to Adah Hastings.

Let her take care of her baby herself.

She guessed it wouldn't hurt her.

Anyway, they couldn't afford to keep a servant for her." With a long-drawn sigh, Hugh finished his supper, and was about lighting his cigar when he felt some one touching him, and turning around he saw that Sam had grasped his coat.