ELOISE BURTON.
"P.S. Mother has helped me just a little with this letter, and now she is writing to you herself."
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Carol could not wait to read Mrs. Burton's letter before giving the joyful news to Mrs. Mandeville. With both letters in his hand, he ran to seek his aunt in her morning-room.
"Auntie, Auntie!" he cried excitedly--"such news! Eloise can walk--more than that, she can run. Isn't it beautiful?"
"Really, Carol? Is it really true?"
"Yes, Auntie, really. Will you read Eloise's letter? And oh, may I tell my cousins?"
"Tell them that Eloise can walk? Why, certainly, dear."
"But more than that, Auntie; they will ask what has made her walk, when every one believed she could never walk again. Mayn't I tell them, Auntie, Christian Science has done what the doctors couldn't do?"
"I will think, dear, what you may tell them. Let me see Eloise's letter. Whilst Mrs. Mandeville read the little girl's letter, Carol opened and read Mrs. Burton's.