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He sat still and let Henri stamp up and down, because, as has been said,

he knew the boy And he had never been one to insist on deference,

which hy he got so ot up and when

Henri stood still, rather ashamed of himself, he put an ar, foronly," he said

"It is the work you do best There are others who can fight, but--I do

not know any one else who can do as you have done"

Henri proo out and drown hiarden, for the tall grave

man who stood before hi

went back to his plain pine table and his work That was the reason why

Sara Lee found hi,

and went back to her cold bed to lie awake and think But no explanation

came to her

The arrival of Marie roused Henri The worst of the bo He listened carefully

before, standing outside in the cold, he poured over his head and

shoulders a pail of cold water He was drying hiorously when

he heard Sara Lee's voice in the kitchen

The day began for Henri when first he saw the girl Itfor him So he went in when he had finished

his toilet and bowed over her hand