with me into the house -- I saw it was no common
case -- Girls Gals in trouble were
often coming to
Master" -- ('Girls in trouble' is a definite rus-
tic phrase indicating but one species of difficulty trouble
"But" she continued "I never saw one look
like this. The blood seemed to have stopped
in her veins -- Her face & neck were
all in blotches of red, & white -- She had
bitten her lip through -- her voice was hoarse
& husky -- & her eye lids seemed to settle down
as if she could never raise them again --
I showed her into a bedroom next the
kitchen & shut the door, hoping Madam
would not mistrust it -- for she never
overlooked anybody's wrong doing but her own,
and she had a partic'lar hatred of gals
that had met with a misfortun -- she