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Nabby Gifford did not serve her employer's breakfast next morning. Ellen Dooley, the red-cheeked Irish "second maid," did that. Nabby cooked the breakfast, of course, and she made it a point to pass through the library after the meal was over. Foster Townsend was seated in the leather easy-chair reading the _Item_, a copy of which was included in the mail handed him by Millard Clark at the post office the previous evening. Mrs. Gifford lingered by the hall door and the captain looked up at her over his spectacles.
"Well, Nabby," he inquired, "what is it?"