A Love Scene

    POOR tom bore e in not `telling of Mr Poulter more t event to Maggie. But terrible dread   even ask tion al `yes -  ask telling `Sered  to cry out at t ed by ogetom  on crutcs son, and Maggie, o to Mr Stelling to anticipate toms mind and to reassure  Pc of telling to ask tion t tom  dared to ask for  does Mr Askern say tulliver will be lame?

    `O no, O no, said Mr Stelling, `not permanently. Only for a little while.

    `Did ell tulliver so, sir, do you think?

    `No: noto .

    `tell him sir?

    `Yes, to be sure: noion it, I daresay roubling about t. Go to  be very quiet at present.

    It  t ulliver be lame? It  pity. P t tate of repulsion but o a common current of suffering and sad privation. ion did not dy and its future effect on toms life, but it made vividly present to ate of toms feeling: een years, but t of teeped in t irremediably hard.

    `Mr Askern says youll soon be all rigulliver, did you Knoly up to toms bed. `Ive just been to ask Mr Stelling, and he says youll walk as well as ever again, by and by.

    tom looked up  momentary stopping of turned raig done for a fortnigimation of a possibility s t of before affected rouble: toms being al sucune  likely to befall o him and cried afresh.

    `Dont be a little silly, Magsie, said tom, tenderly, feeling very brave now. `I s well.

    `Goodby, tulliver, said Pting out e om clasped immediately antial fingers.

    `I say, said tom `ask Mr Stelling to let yo