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201 XXII. CIS TELLS A SECRET 212 XXIII. ROSES THAT TATTLED 219 XXIV. FATHER PAT 233 XXV. AN ALLY CROSSES A SWORD 241 XXVI. THE END OF A LONG DAY 247 XXVII. ANOTHER GIFT 255 XXVIII. ANOTHER STORY 275 XXIX. REVOLT 290 XXX. DISASTER 300 XXXI. THE VISION 318 XXXII. HELP 330 XXXIII. ONE-EYE FIGHTS 345 XXXIV. SIR ALGERNON 357 XXXV. GOOD-BYS 363 XXXVI. LEFT BEHIND 373 XXXVII. UPS AND DOWNS 379 XXXVIII. ANOTHER GOOD-BY 391 XXXIX. THE LETTER 400 XL. "THE TRUE WAY" 407 THE RICH LITTLE POOR BOY ELEANOR GATES CHAPTER I THE WICKED GIANT HE was ten. But his clothes were forty. And it was this difference in the matter of age, and, consequently, in the matter of size, that explained why, at first sight, he did not show how thin-bodied he was, but seemed, instead, to be rather a stout little boy. For his faded, old shirt, with its wide sleeves lopped off just above his elbows, and his patched trousers, shortened by the scissors to knee length, were both many times too large for him, so that they lay upon him, front, back and sides, in great, overlapping pleats that were, in turn, bunched into heavy tucks; and his kitchen apron, worn with the waistband about his neck, the strings being tied at the back, also lent him--if viewed from the front--an appearance both of width and weight. But he was not stout. His frame was not even fairly well covered. From the apron hem in front, the two legs that led down to the floor were scarcely larger than lead piping. From the raveling ends of his short sleeves were thrust out arms that matched the legs--bony, skinny arms, pallid as to color, and with hardly any more shape to them than there was to the poker of the cookstove. But while the lead-pipe legs ended in the sort of hard, splinter-defying boy's feet that could be met with on any stretch of pavement outside the tenement, the bony arms did not end in boyish hands. The hands that hung, fingertip
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