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"You know what I mean. Y ou're just teasing. "
Mrs. Taylor laughed. "Ye.s I bought some lovely ones.\!
"May I look at them, right now.II
!IOh, no darling. They might accidentally fall in the slush cmd be ruined. "
"Oh, okay."
Happily Bobby took his mother's hand. While he did
that he felt more hap~y and contented, not that he didn't feel happy at other times, It was jusf that his mother had been mother and f at her to him ever since he could re-
member and he loved her so much.
Quietly he stole a look at her face. ~e was shocked. "Mommy what',s the matter:: Your face is all gray and
you arn' t smiling. II
"I'm sorry, dear. I was thinking."
liDo you al lays get a gray face when you think hard'?"/
She answered nothing. For the past several days a pain hau been growing in her chest. But she mustn't let Bobby know. It would spoil St. Valentine's Day for him. It was the day after tomorrow. Besides she needed the money. She was sale breadwinner ~nd she couldn't afford to pay expensive doctor bills.
Meanwhil e two problems were bothering Bobby's active little mingo The first was did his mother feel ill, and the second, what could he buy har for Valentine ~s Day?
It was a pr00lem because of the simple fact that he didn't
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