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“Well, why don’t you go along, Mrs. Lancaster? Don’t prize babies have attendants?”,“Don’t stan’ starin’ there like Betty’s chiner doll, go git another of my pies.”,All were silent for a little. Most of them had been more than once to San Francisco’s celebrated dealer in sweets.,As the party, now restored to composure, left the garden, Mrs. Mifsud remarked with her usual aptness, “I occasionally experience premonitions, Mrs. Wopp, that St. Elmo will some day attain celebrity as a clairvoyant.”,“Well, he ain’t dead; he’s alive and bully, with a wad that bulges. I’m going to take you to him.”,CHAPTER III.—A DAY AT SCHOOL.,“Does he?” May Nell stared innocently into the darkening eyes. “I should think that would make you awfully agitated.”,Moses began cutting make-believe tickets using the paper and scissors thrust into his hand by the capable manageress of the show.,Innocuous as this remark might seem, it caused St. Elmo’s lip to quiver and two large tears started on their grimy course down his cheeks.,Awakened to the fact of her son’s existence and perhaps as an antidote to her unusual display of sentiment, Mrs. Wopp spoke rather sharply. “Moses, time you an’ Betty was in bed. You won’t want to git up in the mornin’ an’ milk the cows.” Later left alone in the lower part of the house she stood arms akimbo in the middle of the kitchen gazing at the door through which Nell Gordon had just departed. Shaking her head she said mysteriously, “I kalkerlate as how things is a-settin’ in that way.”,“Why doesn’t your mama have a man to take care of the grounds?” she questioned after she had told him something of her parents and home.,“What’s matter’s Gordon?” he enquired anxiously..