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"Why, Phoebe Spencer, and have you really co before next week Oh, this see home to Vermont You must be colad to be here But I 'htful trip" She glanced around

ss down,

gentlerass; they can be carried in later

It was so kind of you both"

"Hey, there!" sang out the driver, growing io doith this outfit, you'd better be pilin' in

lively, fer I can't stay here all day"

Moffat glanced furtively aside at McNeil, only to discover that

individual quietly seated on the trunk He prorip

"Drive on with your butcher's cart," he called out spitefully "I

reckon it's no special honor to ride to town"

The pleasantly slanced fro, as the luh the red

dust

"How very nice of you to remain," she exclaimed "Aunt Lydia, I am so

anxious for you to meet my friends, Mr Moffat and Mr McNeil They

have been so thoughtful and entertaining all the way up the Bear Water,