@@@@The Joyous Birth of a Large-Eyed Sunday Maiden
@@@@is announced, ultra-jubilantly, by
@@@@WILHELM WARSHAUER, Sub-Inspector of Police in
@@@@Berlin, and Wife MINNA, born BROCKMANN.

Of course they both congratulated their good old
Anna very heartily on the birth of the little great-niece
in Berlin -- indeed Rose, jumping up from the
table, had surprised her mother by giving her old
nurse a hug. "I'm so glad, dear Anna! How happy
they seem to be!"

But when Anna had returned to her kitchen the
two ladies had gone on silently and rather sadly with
their breakfasts and their papers; and after she had
finished, Mrs. Otway, with a heavy heart, had walked
across the hall, to her pretty kitchen, to tell Anna
the great and tragic news.

The kitchen of the Trellis House was oddly situated
just opposite Mrs. Otway's sitting-room and at right
angles to the dining-room. Thus the two long
Georgian windows of Anna's domain commanded the
wide green of the Cathedral Close, and the kitchen
door was immediately on your right as you walked
through the front door into the arched hall of the
house.

On this momentous morning Anna's mistress found
the old German woman sitting at her large wooden
table writing a letter. When Mrs. Otway came in,
Anna looked up and smiled; but she did not rise, as
an English servant would have done.

Mrs. Otway walked across to her, and very kindly
she laid her hand on the older woman's shoulder.

"I have something sad to tell you," she said gently.

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