“Oh, yes, that’s the way burdens are always thrown back on poor folk!” muttered the woman.
“I am throwing no burden on you,” said Lucy, with a firmness which surprised herself. “I am simply handing back a great risk which you deceitfully imposed upon me. I think we have nothing more to discuss,” and thereupon she rang the kitchen bell, and summoned Jessie into the presence of her mistress and her cousin.
(To be continued.)
[A HAPPY HEALTHY GIRLHOOD.]
By “MEDICUS” (Dr. GORDON-STABLES, R.N.).
PART II.
“’Tis now the summer of your youth;
Time has not cropt the roses from your cheek,
Though sorrow may have washed them.”