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TEE MOTION PICTURE STORY MAGAZINE
NELSON IS INVITED OUT TO PLAY
words, he was edging closer to the boys, and his left hand held a bank note. Now he whirled suddenly upon them.
"Be off, now/' he said aloud, but under his breath he whispered, with more haste than dignity, "Here's the tip; beat it, like good fellows."
"How fortunate that I happened along," she said, as they started up the hill.
"Very fortunate," he murmured, sincerely.
"While he fixed his attention on the fact that he must walk very slowly and carefully, in order to sustain her delusion, he was wondering anxiously what would happen next.
"Of course, she will just walk to the door, and go away," he thought. But her next remark opened up new possibilities.
"I was just on my way to answer your advertisement, ' ' she said. ' ' Have you engaged any one yet?"
"No," he answered, groping for a
clue to this mystery ; "were you — er — ■ interested in the place?"
"I'm not a regular nurse," she answered, ' ' but my father was an invalid for many years, and I cared for him. He died last month. It is necessary for me to support myself, and I thought perhaps I could please you."
' ' I think you can, ' ' he assured her, truthfully. ' ' This is my house. Come in, and we will talk it over. ' '
It had suddenly occurred to the artful Nelson that his neighbor across the way was a blind man. It was all clear now. His neighbor had advertised for a companion, and this young lady, true to the propensities of her sex, had jumped to the conclusion that he was the afflicted one.
Jenks, the butler, having been in the Nelson family before Robert was born, and having had sole charge of his young master's household since the death of the parents, was accustomed to surprising events. But even his trained impassiveness was