I have already sold some of the goods ordered with a
view to soldier customers, for they were goods which
can be useful abroad, and I hear a great many parcels
will soon be sent out. For that I shall open a special
department!"

To her pleased surprise, he had pressed half a crown
on her; and after a little persuasion she had accepted
it. After all, she had a right, under their old agreement,
to a percentage on any profit she brought him!
That news about Major Guthrie had thus procured a
very easily earned half-crown, even more easily earned
than the money she had received for sending off the
telegram to Spain. Anna hoped that similar opportunities
of doing Mr. Hegner a good turn would often
come her way. But still, she hated this war, and with
the whole of her warm, sentimental German heart she
hoped that Mr. Jervis Blake would soon be back home
safe and sound. He was a rich, generous young gentleman,
the very bridegroom for her beloved Miss
Rose.

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