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"I know no such thing There is nothing good in this place, -

except you, - and I suppose that is the reason you have chosen

it for your abode I can't ih"

"She let me coood for, when there is only

half of hiet into one other

field, and let powder take the other half"

"Hush, Preston! hush; you must not talk so There's your

mother"

"My mother won't think much of me now, I don't knohy she

should You never did, even when I was myself"

"I think just as ht

be much more than your old self, if you would"

Preston frowned and rolled his head over on the pillow

"Confounded!" he rateful"

"I am not I owe it to Yankee powder"

What, perhaps, had Southern powder done? I shivered inwardly,

and for a ot Preston

"What is the matter?" said he "You look queer; and it is very