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Professor W hitby's to give information
concerning Mr. Bolander.
tL Pfiggy aint been out of the house
this morninV’ Mrs. Bagley assured
"him. She was feeling very hot in the
shawl, and very cross, because of her
disappointment about Mrs. Brewer.
She could n’t have gone to Professor
W hitby’s, and as for Mr. Bolander I
don’t know nothin’ of the trouble h e ’3
got into ; but I do say no respectable
young man lodger would get suspended
right in the middle of the year, an’ leave
my room vacant."
Mrs. Bagley did not see fit to inform
Wilifred, or rather Peggy, of the object
of tliis call. She was afraid the child
might get an idea by It that she was a
person of importance.
The gentleman had hardly gone when
the door-bcll was again rung, and this
