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FIVE AND ONE MAKE SIX.
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CHAPTER XI.
FIVE AND ONE MAKE SIX.
LONG hush followed these few
words of explanation. Gertrude
was too stunned to ask further
questions. Mechanically she moved
toward her room, and took off her hat and
coat; but all the time she was washing her
hands and smoothing her hair, her ears were
strained for sounds from Georgie's room,
which was next her own. There was very
little to be heard,—only a low, continuous
murmur of conversation, broken now and then
by a louder word; but all so subdued that
Candace, sitting on the staircase seat, caught
nothing. Marian, rushing up after her mother,
had been stopped by the explanation that
Georgie was not well, and wanted to be alone
with mamma. After a little natural outburst
