Teecie," I said, " yon have one friend, at any rate, even if he be not a very grand one."

She gave one of her" quaint expressive Utile nods. Translated, it meant: " I understand all that, but I cannot talkjpet now." By-and by, however, she brightened up, and went to the table to claim her share of tea and thick bread and but tor, and I began to mend a bow