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"Here they come!" Billy exclaimed at last

The men did not speak; nor until they came to the little knoll that

debouched froain Julia acted as spokesht to think this matter over," she said briefly

"What is your decision? Shall Angela's wings go uncut?"

"No, by God! " burst out Ralph "No daughter of esture, Billy interposed "Aren't you women

happy?" he asked

"Oh, no," Julia answered "Of course we're not I mean we have one kind

of happiness - the happiness that co a

home and children But there is another kind of happiness of which when

you cut our wings ere no longer capable - the happiness that comes

from a sense of absolute freedohters Angela and all the girl-children who follow her

ive it to them?"

"No!" Ralph yelled And "Go horew by the knoll, one slender li across its

top to the lake Peachy ran ni this liht would per herself; then she walked swiftly back and forth Finally she

ju squarely on her feet She ran like a deer