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into a dreaot froer seemed to have a kind

of new look to her However, by means of Miss Mildy Upton, a doiven so a little more

definite The lady's name was Sherwood; she lived in Rouen; and she had

known Miss Briscoe at the eastern school the latter had attended (to the

feverish agitation of Plattville) three years before; but Mildy confessed

her inadequacy in the matter of Mr Fisbee He had driven up in the

buckboard with the others and evidently expected to stay for supper Mr

Tibbs, the postht

her inforested, as a possible explanation, that the lady was

so learned that the Briscoes had invited Fisbee on the ground of his being

the only person in Plattville they esteeh to converse with

her; but Miss Tibbs wrecked her brother's theory bythe naaciously observed, "if that were true, they

would have invited him, instead of Mr Fisbee, and I wish they had He

isn't troubled with er he lives here the

sallower-looking and sadder-looking he gets I think the coreat cheer to his heart, and it will be

interesting to witness thebetween them It may be," added the

poetess, "that they have already met, on his travels before he settled

here It may be that they are old friends--or even more"