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`` The major is only ill from walking in the hot sun . Come in , Doro dear , and tell us if we can help you . '' `` Aunt Libby is alone with him , and when the doctor comes she may need something . If your ma would not be afraid to let Johnnie run over about noon , I would pay him for any errand , '' spoke Dorothy . `` Oh , certainly , dear , '' the woman replied , now venturing to poke her uncombed head out of doors , thinking , evidently that the mere mention of money was the most powerful antiseptic known . `` Of course Johnnie will be too pleased . I 'll send him any time you say . ''