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"No!" snapped Mrs Holt, "and neither have you, if you kill

yourself to get it"

"Do I look killed?" inquired her son

"No You look the most like a real man I ever saw you," she

conceded

"And Kate Bates won't need glasses for forty years yet," he said

as he went back to his work in the ravine

Kate was in thestone He

stood a second watching her as she told the boys surrounding her

how best to help her, then he turned away, a dull red burning his

cheek "I'll have her if I die for it," heto work like this for her

every day of ers sauntered past and watched the work of the new

teacher, s at horeatly, and a feent hohbours' places

look so unkempt that they were forced to trian, the whole village was

busy in a crusade that extended to streets and alleys, while the

new teacher was theheard of such a thing, Kate had started Civic

Iainst a tree trunk and looked down at her as

he rested

"Do you suppose there is such a thing as everout