. The Saturday evening post. the long-wearingWindow Shade material a fraction; back to sixty-nine; downto sixty-seven; back to sixty-eight; upto sixty-nine; down to sixty-seven; once tosixty-five? up to sixty-seven; up again toseventy. When it registered that price fora dozen sales during a half hour or so theache through Marys wet forehead lessened,a band round her heart seemed to snap, andhope to steal in. If it would only stay at seventy! This fig-ure, which in the morning she had felt spelledruin, had taken on a fictitious kindliness,even beauty, to her haunted eyes, so dread-ful had been
. The Saturday evening post. the long-wearingWindow Shade material a fraction; back to sixty-nine; downto sixty-seven; back to sixty-eight; upto sixty-nine; down to sixty-seven; once tosixty-five? up to sixty-seven; up again toseventy. When it registered that price fora dozen sales during a half hour or so theache through Marys wet forehead lessened,a band round her heart seemed to snap, andhope to steal in. If it would only stay at seventy! This fig-ure, which in the morning she had felt spelledruin, had taken on a fictitious kindliness,even beauty, to her haunted eyes, so dread-ful had been the depths underneath it thatshe had seen yawning before her. In thecrux of her excitement she could not helpbut marvel at this hope, dimly consciousthrough it how the body stretched on therack is taught humility. Yes, if C. wouldat least stay at seventy, so that if she hadto sell out, something would be saved! Sheno longer thought of gain; no longerdreamed even of escaping with the originalmoney intact. To save, if but
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