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MR. JESSOP'S EXPERIMENT
By ETHEL TURNER.
WITH a certain hardness that belongs to all young things, the girls at Sea View School laughed and giggled greatly amongst themselves when they came back from the Christmas vacation and found their head-mistress, Miss Mayne, had employed her time in being married.
"Old Hannah will go next," said Inez Flavelle, the school beauty, "and then Peters will begin to look out for a wife."
Hannah was the school-cook, fifty if a day, and woefully unbeautiful. Peters, the gardener, would never see sixty again. The comparison was surely a harsh one, for Miss Mayne was only forty.
Twenty years ago she had been engaged to this same man whom she had now married, Captain John Black, long time a "mariner of the sea." There was pink in her cheeks then, and the happy light of youth in her eyes; Inez herself had not more dimples nor more of the sun's brightness meshed in her hair.
There came no blinding storm, no violent earthquake to the young life; merely a grey dulness settled down over it and hid the sun for just a score of years.
There were helpless young sisters and brothers in her family, and an invalid mother; the father dying suddenly, left not
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