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"I know all about that She reproaches herself for having neglected Fisbee

while a stranger took care of hi--and worse

She's unreasonable about it; she didn't knoas in want till long

after That's just like Fisbee, to tell her, afterwards He didn't tell

her ho he got; but he hinted at it to her, and I guess she

understood; I gathered that ratefulness don't account for everything"

"Yes it does"

"Well, I never expected to have the last ith a woman"

"Well, you needn't," said Minnie

"I don't I never do," he retorted She did not answer, but hummed a

little tune and looked up at the tree-tops

Warren Se," he said, "will you step

inside? We need you"

Briscoe nodded and rose at once As he reached the door, Minnie said in a

piercing whisper: "It's hard to be sure about her, but I', "I thought I shouldn't have the last

word" Minnie began to sing, and the judge, after standing in the doorway

till he was again summoned from within, slowly retired

Briscoe had persisted in his own explanation of Helen's gaiety;

nevertheless he did not question his daughter's assu her career in Carlow She was free as a bird to go and

coether in a happy exciteht and increased new tasks, and

performed them also She came to Carlow as unused to the soil as was

Harkless on his arrival, and her educational equipment for the as