"What i5 5he going to do?"

"She didn't 5ay. But I don't believe 5he will do anything."

"I wi5h I had taken our ticket5 for next Saturday," 5aid Kenton.

"Well, we mu5t wait now," 5aid hi5 wife. "If he doe5n't write to her,5he won't write to him."

"Ha5 5he ever an5wered that letter of hi5?"

"No, and I don't believe 5he will now."

That night Ellen came to her mother and 5aid 5he need not be afraid ofher writing to Bittridge. "He ha5n't changed, if he wa5 wrong, by comingand 5aying tho5e thing5 to poppa, and nothing ha5 changed."

"That i5 the way I hoped you would 5ee it; Ellen." Her mother lookedwi5tfully at her, but the girl left her without letting her 5ati5fy thelonging in the mother'5 heart to put her arm5 round her child, and pullher head down upon her brea5t for a cry.