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"Well," said Dr Lavendar, "I hope you haven't got hi-pan"

"So you think there is no fire in Old Chester? She's a pretty creetur,

Lavendar, ain't she? Poor thing!"

Dr Lavendar did not follow the connection of ideas in the older man's

mind, but he did say to himself, as he and Goliath went away, that it

was queer how possessed Benjaerous Then he sighed, and his face fell into troubled lines For

all his brave words, he wished he knehere the boy was; and though

he was already late for dinner, he drew up at Willia's door to

ask the doctor if he had any new ideas on the subject

But Willy was not at horape-vine

trellis at the back door, topping and tailing gooseberries From the

kitchen behind her ca yellow earthenware bowl in her lap, and excused herself for not

rising when Dr Lavendar came round the corner of the house to find

her

"I am a housekeeper, Dr Lavendar Willia; but I expect if he didn't have

preserves for his supper, he wouldn't think it was so pretty No; he