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"Of course you are frohed "We call Wisconsin a Western State Of course, it's the ignorant prejudice of the New-Yorker, but I find it hard to think of you as actual residents of this far-away little town I thought only miners lived here?"

"We are miners My husband has ain some new machinery just now and is unable to co his implied criticism of the town, she added: "We have just as nice people here as you'll find anywhere"

He responded gallantly, "I am quite prepared to believe that, Mrs Lambert But do many nice people like you live here all the year round?" He was bent on drawing the girl out, but she did not respond

The hter East to school"

He was cautious "By East you mean Milwaukee?"

"Diamond Lake, Wisconsin"

He turned to the girl "How long were you away?"

"Four years"

"Did you like it?"

"Very much"

"That is the reason you find it lonesome here" Up to this moment his attitude was that of a teacher towards a pretty pupil "You miss your classmates, I suppose? Still there irl"

The hed "It really is very lonesome here for Viola--if it weren't for her church work and herpeople, and then her years at the seminary spoiled her for the society out here, anyway"

"So hed Serviss Then, to clear the shadohich had gathered on the girl's face, he said: "I see a fine piano, and shelves offor ," she replied, coldly, "I have no voice"

"Then play for ht weeks on the desert and I a for music"

"Are you a musician?" asked Mrs Lahter is passionately fond of the piano," the o on and make a specialty of it They recoo to New York She wanted to go last year, but I couldn't let her go I'd been without her for four years, and Mr Lao, and so she had to stay; but it does seeive it up"