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Yet Williaht that if the old

ht rally "He

never speaks of hi

over him all the time Once or twice I have referred to the boy, but

he pretends not to hear th to bear the

idea that he is to blame, I wish I could tell hi

They haddown-stairs and Dr

Lavendar going up Si about with a

decanter and hospitable suggestions, had disappeared into the dining-

rooh in fact,

perhaps he is to blame in soered the boy'?"

"No; that wasn't it," said William

Dr Lavendar looked at hian, but a lean, freckled shadow in the dining-rooht 'a' ht 'a' But that weren't no reason," said Siive his own grandfather a