CHAPTER XXV.
TRUTH-TELLING.
"Conformity to fact or reality.

Exact accordance with that which is, has been, or shall be." I looked up Webster's definition of Truth yesterday, after overhearing a conversation between two girls in the horse-car.

They spoke so loudly that not to hear would have been an impossibility.

My attention was first attracted to them by the name of a friend.
"Did you know of Mr.B.'s illness ?" asked the younger and more pronounced colloquist.
"Yes," responded the other; "I know he has had pneumonia, but I understand that he is now convalescent." "Oh, then, you haven't heard the latest!" The discovery of her companion's ignorance acted upon the girl like magic.

She became vivacious, and beamed with the glow of satisfaction kindled by the privilege of being the first to relate a morsel of news.
"Well, my dear! Mamma and I were calling there, and while I was talking to Miss B., I heard Mrs.B.tell my mother this awful thing.
You know Mr.B.'s sister is a trained nurse (I never did believe in trained nurses!) and when he was taken so ill they sent for her to come and take care of him.