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Tilly returned with a large leaf and found the two silent At

once he felt it incu-woirl?" he asked

"Four years," she replied

"Her father hasn't been dead long, then?" he asked

"She was one year when he died"

"Three years?"

"Yes, three years that he is dead--yes"

Curiously quiet she was, al these

questions She looked at hi

in her eyes He felt he could notabout her presence hurt hiirl's wondering look

rise in her eyes

Tilly handed her the butter and she rose

"Thank you very much," she said "How much is it?"

"We'll oin' to church"

"It 'ud look better of you if you went to church and took th'

money for your butter," said Tilly, persistent in her claim to

him

"You'd have to put in, shouldn't you?" he said

"How wen