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crying, "Oh, where are we going to live, ma?"
Fannie looked at her for a moment, and then answered with a burst of tears, "Gawd knows, child, Gawd knows."
The girl stepped back astonished. "Why, why!" and then with a rush of tenderness she threw her arms about her mother's neck. "Oh, you're tired to death," she said; "that's what's the matter with you. Never mind about the house. now. I've got some tea made for you, and you just take a cup."
Fannie sat down and tried to drink her tea, but she could not. It stuck in her throat, and the tears rolled down her face and fell into the shaking cup. Joe looked on silently. He had been out and he understood.
"I'll go out to-morrow and do some looking around for a house while you stay at home an' rest, ma."
Her mother looked up, the maternal instinct for the protection of her daughter at
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