Ruby's Reward — page 175: what you’re looking at

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* Wow long will it take you ?” > “T do not know ; £ imazine I shall hnow the very worst in a week or a fortnicht.” ‘©The house will have to be sold ?” “Yes, and everything init!” My Gordon groaned, “Cannot we keep anything?” Ruby asked | looking a little startled, for there were somo things that she tresured very sacredly. Vou are to have everything that belongs | to you — our mother’s plate, and other | things that she left ; and Estelle shall have what she brought here. Nothing clso ean be retained except just a few articles neces- sary to furnish a humble home for us.” Tf you will give me a list of just what we may have, Robert, I will see thab every- thing is properly attended to,” Ruby said, thoughtfully. ‘Of course we must have bed-clothing and table-linen, and per- haps one or two of the plainer car- pets, and some of the cheaper furniture. Tf you will do this, you need have no more care about it. Sarah and I will pack evorything, and thus relieve you of that | anxiety.” Robert Gordon felt a sense of shame creeping over him as he listened to his sister’s request. Not one word of mumur- ing over hor own loss had escaped her lips ; her thought was all for him and _ his burden of care. He reproached himsclf for having betrayed so much weakness before ber; but his wife’s wild grief, and the storm of reproaches she showered upon him, when he told her that her own fortune was sunk with the rest, had almost crushed him. Now he sat suddenly erect, and smiled down into the earnest eyes uplifted to his. face. comichooks.com