YOURS WITH ALL MY HEART 



kitchen on the entrance of Mr. Wakeman 

 and the other gentleman, but the maid hung 

 about in the room adjoining, within ear- 

 shot, and when she heard this, she stepped 

 boldly forward and said: 



'Pardon me, gentlemen, but it looks to 

 me they came in that window,' and she 

 pointed to the rear window, with its broken 

 pane and open lock, which none had ob- 

 served, behind the partly lowered shade. 



Yes, yes, -I see, - I see,' : said the 

 little man. ' If they went out again that way, 

 they must have worked quite hard to reach 

 back, through that hole, and pull the shade 

 as low as that.' 



But Skippum and I remembered the 

 broken pane with fear and anger, and we 

 barked right out loud and long, and \ve tried 

 to tell this little man w^ith the big, sharp nose 

 all about Inez slapping at us with the sting- 

 ing hair-brush and then smashing the glass, 

 and we looked back and forth from the 

 broken pane to her, and not outside. 



And we thought he could talk our lan- 

 guage, for he took his eyes off Inez's face and 

 began to look intently at us, as we pounced 

 first toward her with angry screams and 

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