It is new; I--I brought it out to--to sell, if I could.

I do want to get some money to give to Mrs.Perry--she's been so good to Dick and me, and--and I hadn't got anything to give her." Then, mistaking the cause of Miss Carew's thoughtful silence, she added, nervously, "But perhaps you'd rather have a new one made on purpose for you, miss.

This one is quite clean, but--" "Yes, yes, I'd like to have this one; I'd rather have this one, child.

I was only thinking." Then, as she put the money for it into Huldah's hand, she asked gently, "Will you tell me your story, dear, presently, when I come to see Mrs.Perry?
I should so like to know it.

Then I shall be better able to understand, and perhaps I could help, or do something.