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It had become a silent, bitter contest between the two of theirl She washe was planning to do She made a careful survey

of her room, and she saw that with a screw-driver she could unfasten the

hinge of her bedroom door Hered, apparently by accident, to break the point off a knife,

and when she went up to her room one afternoon to be locked in while

Herman went to Gus's saloon, she carried the knife in her stocking

It was a sorry tool, however Driven by her shaking hand, there was a

ti The postman, when

he came, came at five, and she heard the kitchen clock strike five

before the first screw fell out into her hand She got the crazily, held only by the padlock She ran

to theThe post the street, and she halass When he saw her he turned in at the gate, and she

got her letter and ran down the stairs

She heard his step on the porch outside, and called to his" to the hill

"Yes"

"If I slide a letter out under the door, will you take it to the