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"He wished to visit the village where he was born,

and Bates, his companion and servant, went to Vermont

with him He died quite suddenly, and was buried beside

his father in the old village cemetery I saw him

last early in the summer I ay from home and

did not know of his death until it was all over Bates

can the necessary papers

in probating the will It had to be done in the place of

the decedent's residence, and ent together to Wabana,

the seat of the county in which Annandale lies"

I was silent after this, looking out toward the sea

that had lured me since my earliest dreams of the world

that lay beyond it

"It's a poor stake, Glenarly, and I wheeled upon him

"I suppose you think it a poor stake! I suppose you

can't see anything in that old man's life beyond his

money; but I don't care a curse what randfather's wishes in his

lifetioing out there to spend a year if I die

for it Do you get my idea?"

"Humph! You alere a stormy petrel," he