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[Illustration: "I WILL GET THE MONEY FOR YOU, DINNEY,"]
"But just think if he should be right!" said Gloria, quivering with
excitement. "Wouldn't it be beautiful, just beautiful, if it should come
true! It would almost make me forgive that awful man who did not mend
the railing."
"But then," said the nurse, "unless life changes all through for Sal, it
might be worse to be beaten and starved and feel conscious of it, than
to be beaten and starved in a half-demented condition."
"Oh, don't put it that way!" said Gloria.
"I could not help thinking how little you can see of what her life all
these years has been--you with your young sheltered life."
Gloria's face softened. "No; one cannot discern--that is, I mean I
could not before to-day. But anything seems possible after all that has
happened to-day."
It was while Gloria was standing on her own steps, having watched the
District Nurse close her door, that she caught sight of a little figure
flying up the street. It was Dinney. She waited impatiently for his
approach.
"I've got it, Miss Gloria!" he said, coming panting up the steps. "I've
got it! I struck the very man and he told me. He wrote it down for me.
It belongs to an estate.
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