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"Now you take a good long nap, and then I hope you will feel quite able
to go down and begin to keep house for your brother."
"The first thing to do," said Miriam, as Miss Panney carefully adjusted
the bedclothes about her shoulders, "is to see what sort a house we have
got, and then I will know how I am to keep it."
When her young patient had dropped asleep, Miss Panney went downstairs.
In the lower hall she found Ralph walking up and down.
"There is no earthly need of your worrying yourself about your sister. I
am sure the doctor would say she is in no danger at all," said the old
lady. "And now, if you don't mind, I would like very much to go up into
the garret and see what frightened your sister."
"It was apparently a box of human bones," he said, "but I barely glanced
at it. You are perfectly welcome to go up and examine."
It was a quarter of an hour before Miss Panney came down from the
garret, laughing.
"I studied anatomy on those bones," she said. "Every one of them is
marked in ink with its name. I had forgotten all about them.


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