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“What’s the trouble, dear? What were you afraid of?” she enquired, as she raised him to his feet.,“We won’t have any shadow people to-night, darling.” Mrs. Bennett rose and turned on the lights, though it was not yet dark; drew the curtains, and punched the fire till a storm of sparks sputtered up the chimney.,“How in the name of orl the aporstles did that hen git in there?” questioned Mrs. Wopp.,Mr. Patton, who “placed” the refugees, was glad of Billy’s request, for the child’s struggle for self-control had touched him; and he knew no one would be a kinder mother to her than Mrs. Bennett.,Her questions brought long and wonderful tales of Billy’s younger life; of Edith when she, too, was a little girl. The child helped to set the table, carried in bread, salad plates, and jelly. “It shakes like the fat woman at the circus when she laughed. How do you make jelly?”,“There’s a little secret about work; with grown-ups it is often their play; and they like it.”,“Take her in,” Billy gasped. “They stole her; they’re after—save her—hurry—” He could say no more, but suddenly collapsed and sank to the ground; and the last sight he remembered was the dark Italian at the house corner, talking fast, with one hand in a sling, the other waving a knife threateningly.,Oh, where have you been, charming Billy?”,“Rocky?” he interrupted. “You bet not. It’ll be just bully, that’s what!”,Job, his ardor undampened by the strangeness of this reception, made haste to follow.,[89]“Mother, do come and look at the procession,” Edith called cautiously from the trellises, where she was slyly watching.,“Why, ma, the children are quite respectable; I know all their mothers.” Buzz’s mamma looked a little mischievous..