The impenetrable depths of understanding deep down
in her were beginning to take on life.
Listening to the frank open conversation, with her eyes
wide open and her lips apart, she found strange thoughts
being worded, new impulses becoming impregnated within
her.
Hagar's first question of Miss LaMotte came strangely
easy, even though she was nervous and shaky. " Tell me,
Miss LaMotte do you — do you live — with this man, and
does he give you things, like money and clothes? ** abe

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The girl viewed her cuHoubI;, murmuring, **Wen, I
will — are you fooling? Or are you just — "

Hagar went over to her and put her hand on the jprl's
arm. "I just want to know, Miss LaMotte," she said,
rather frightened at the look that had come into the girl's
eyes. " Really, I don't know anything about those
things."

" You don't know? *•

** No, honestly — **

"Well, I will—'*

** Please."

The other soon came to understand Hagar*a utter
innocence.
**I wouldn't have believed it," QueoUa said, over and
over again.
Hagar explained further. " I'm really not fooling.
