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"I want to know," said I, "and particularly, Herbert, whether he told

you when this happened?"

"Particularly? Let me remember, then, what he said as to that His

expression was, 'a round score o' year ago, and a'most directly after I

took up wi' Compeyson' How old were you when you came upon him in the

little churchyard?"

"I think in my seventh year"

"Ay It had happened soht into his ically lost, ould have

been about your age"

"Herbert," said I, after a short silence, in a hurried way, "can you see

ht of the fire?"