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| “© Youcan begin over again,” she went on, cheerfully, seoing that he could not speak. “I have heard people say that you have excellent business talents, and will do everything I can to help you. T believe I can do a great deal toward taking: care of myself. I can teach, for Mr Sampson told me, when he gavo me my diploma, that if I ever wanted a position he wonld give me one, and I only laughed, for [ thought how impossible it was that. I should evar need to do anything of the kind. Do not worry about me, only let me help you. Iam good at figures, and, if it will save you any ex- pense, letme help you about your books, write letters, or anything else,” Robert Gordon smiled at the idea of his sister turning clerk for him in the present crisis. But she had already helped him more than she knew with her ready sym- pathy and the brave spirit with which she faced the dark future, and he told her so. ** Does Estelle know ?” she asked, a little later. ‘‘Is it that which has made her so suddenly ill 2” * Yes, she knows,” replied Mr Gordon, with a sigh, *T heard her crying,” pursued Ruby, “and Iwent to her door, but she would not see me. Is ~ I suppose Aer money is all safe ?” she concluded. Her brother groaned aloud, for this was the bitterest blow of all, omslicictoles ict