Augusta looked at her and clenched her
fists, while a lump rose iu her throat and
her gray eyes filled with tears. How could
she get the money to save her? The year
before a rich man. a man who was detest
able to her, had wanted to marry her, and
she would have nothing to say to him. He
had gone abroad, else she would have gone
back to him and married him—at a price!
Marry him? yes, sho would marry him;
sho would do anything for money to take
her sister away: What did she care for
herself when her darling was dying—dy
ing for the want of two hundred pounds!
Just then Jeaunie woke up. and stretched
her arms out to her.
"So you are back at Last, dear,” she said
in her sweet, childish voice. "It has been
so lonely without you. Why, how wet
you are! Take off your jacket at once.
Gussie, or you will soon lie as ill as"—and
here she broke out into a terrible fit of
coughing, that seemed to shako her tender
frame as the wind shakes a reed.
Her sister turned and obeyed, and then
came and sat by the sofa and took the thin
little hand in here.
