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Down the Wrights' carriage road she heard a footstep on the gravel; a

step that grew louder and louder, the confident, co step of

the kind friend on who

"What did I tell you?" William called to her, as he looht fro; "you saw him?"

"I didn't see him, but--"

"Oh," she said blankly

"I saw those who had, ten minutes before; won't that do?" he teased

her "I found the Wright faht to

be this minute I said I had just stopped in to say how-do-you-do

Sa church"

"And he--Sam? Was he--"

"He was in the house, up-stairs, his mother said I asked about hione up to his

room His father htn't to be so hard on hihtfully; "he said he

had told Sa him

for the rest of his life--'as if he were a cri like that!" William lifted his lantern