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BY HAZEL DEi'O BATCH El-08.
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Leila Marsh, who has always been
accustomed to idleness, is left with
out money. She finds her rich friends
are of the fair-wtather variety, and
because she has never been taught
to do anything, is forced to take a
position as lady’s maid with Mona
Kingsley. In the family are Richard
Kingsley and Barry, the son. Mona
realises that Leila is really us good
as she is. and to amuse herself hu
miliates the girl constarttly before
others. Barry, because of Leila's
beauty, persecute * her in another
way, and Richard, whose marriage to
Mona has been an unhappy one. is
sorry for the girt. Mona, who lives
on admiration, is interested in a man
named Ronald Cameron. One ‘after
noon, while she is out, Barry comes
into the room where Leila is sewing.
He tries to make love to her, and in
escaping from him she falls and is
caught by some one from behind.
CHAPTER XVII.
' To the Rescue.
Richard had bean coming: up the
stairs as Lela fell, and he caught
the girl’s, alight body as it sagged
forward. He was about to release
her with some light remark when he
realized suddenly that, she seemed
strangely limp. The next moment he
saw that she had fainted. Her little
head with its cinnamon colored cutis
lay against his breast, her lashes lav
like small fans on the ivory ’pallor of
her cheeks.
A strange feeling which he did not
stop to analyze surged through him.
