The fright in her eyes was terrible.

She clung to him, moaning and crying out between her sobs: 'Don't leave me! Don't leave me! Don't leave me!' Harold was much moved and held the little thing tight in his strong arms, saying to her: 'No darling! I shan't leave you! Look in my eyes, dear, and I will promise you, and then you will be happy.

Won't you ?' She looked quickly up in his face.

Then she kissed him lovingly, and rested her head, but not sleepily this time, on his breast said: 'Yes! I'm not afraid now! I'm going to stay with The Man!' Presently Mrs.Stonehouse, who had been thinking of ways and means, and of the comfort of the strange man who had been so good to her child, said: 'You will sleep with mother to-night, darling.

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