[Bad Hugh by Mary Jane Holmes]@TWC D-Link bookBad Hugh CHAPTER XIV 3/21
Who is Alice Johnson? What does she say? 'My dear Eliza, feeling that I have not long to live--' What--dead, hey? Well, I'm sorry for that, but, I must say, she did a very sensible thing at the last, sending me a thousand dollars.
We'll go somewhere now, won't we ?" and clutching fast the draft, the heartless girl yielded the letter to her mother, who, burying her face in her hands, sobbed bitterly as the past came back to her, when the Alice, now at rest and herself were girls together. 'Lina took up the letter her mother had dropped and read it through. "Wants you to take her daughter, Alice.
Is the woman crazy? And her nurse, Densie, Densie Densmore.
Where have I heard that name before? Say, mother, let's talk the matter over.
Shall you let Alice come? Ten dollars a week, they'll pay.
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