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"Those deeds are burned?" gasped Kate "All of theone?"

"Every last one," said Mrs Bates

"Well, if ONE is gone, thank God they all are," said Kate

Her ain!" she cried eagerly

"Maybe I'm WRONG about it, but it's what I think," said Kate "If

the boys are crazy over all of theone, they'd do murder

if part had theirs, and the others had not"

Mrs Bates doubled over on Kate's shoulder suddenly and struggled

with an inward spas," said Kate "This is dreadful All of us know

how you loved hi I can do? Is there any special thing the matter?"

"I'm afraid!" whispered Mrs Bates "Oh, Katie, I'm so afraid

You kno SET he was, you knoorked hi, when he fought the fire

till the shirt burned off him" -- her voice dropped to a harsh

whisper -- "what do you s'pose he's doing now?"

Any forious belief was a subject that never had been

touched upon or talked of in the Bates faion; Kate looked at her mother curiously

"You mean you believe in after life?" she asked