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At sixJulia's return, Noble Dill closed his own gate behind hi hieraniuht overcoat; he flourished a nealking-stick and new grey gloves As for his expression, hethethe street, he are of a commotion, of missiles hurled and voices clashed In this alley there was a discord: passion and lance that way, Noble could see but one person; a boy of fourteen who looked through a crack in a board fence, steadfastly keeping an eye to this aperture and as continuously calling through it, holding his head to a level for this purpose, but at the saly, it was conveyed--with the other parts of his body His voice was noeet, now piercing, and again far too dulcet with the overkindness of burlesque; and if, as it see his spleen, his spleen was a powerful one and gorged He appeared to be in a tor of bricks, parts of bricks and rocks of size upon the other side of the fence, as close to the crack as !" he wailed, his tone poisonously a Henery! Oo's dot de mos' booful eyes in a dray bid nasty world Henery! Oh, has I dot booful eyes, dolling Pattywatty? Yes, I has! I has dot pretty eyes!" His voice rose unbearably "Oh, what prettiest eyes I dot! Me and Herbie Atwater! Oh, my booful eyes! Oh, my booful----"

But even as he reached this apex, the head, shoulders, and arms of Herbert Atwater rose momentarily above the fence across the alley, behind the tormentor Herbert's expression was iesture hich he hurled an object at the comedian preoccupied with the opposite fence This object, upon reaching its goal, as it did more with a splash than a thud, was revealed as a tomato, presumably in a useless state The taunter screa vainly for an assailant, began necessarily to renized the boy as one of the Torbin family, but he was not sure, and he had no idea that the episode was in any possible manner to be connected with his own recent history How blindly alk our ways! As Noble flourished down the street, there appeared a wan face at a prison ; and the large eyes looked out upon hi that he had to do with this prison as that he had to do with Master Torbin's tomato