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Three days it stormed with never a break, stor of water fro that becaed with sodden masses of snow half melted

and sent faint wisps of stea as an

ordeal, every armload an achievement Cash did not even atte or staring into the

flames, or pottered about the little domestic duties that could not half

fill the days

Withof an old pair

of drawers, he scrubbed on his knees the floor on his side of the dead

line, and tried not to notice Lovin Child He failed only because Lovin

Child refused to be ignored, but insisted upon occupying the i--much as he had helped Marie pack her suit

case one fateful afternoon not so long before

When Lovin Child was not pered hi that in, and

crying "Ee? Ee?" with a shaht because it sailed round and

round until Cash turned and saw it, and threw it out

"No, no, no!" Lovin Child adain

Cash did not say anything Indeed, he hid a grin under his thick,

curling beard which he had grown since the first frost as a protection