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Kate gazed at Polly in dumb amazement She was speechless for a

time, then to break the strain she said: "My soul! Did you

really, Polly? I guess there is ht!"

"Oh, there's SOME Bates in n that paper, and n

it, and send Mr Thomlins to you with it and the baby I can do

that, because I' to!"

Ten days later she did exactly what she had said she would Then

she turned her face to the wall and went into a convulsion out of

which she never came While the Peters farand duirl in her

arms Adam drove to Hartley to deposit one more paper, the most

precious of all, in the safety deposit box

Kate and Adam mourned too deeply to talk about it They went

about their daily rounds silently, each busy with regrets and self

investigations They watched each other carefully, were kinder

than they ever had been to everyone they came in contact with; the

baby they frankly adored Kate had reared her own children with

ss, quite casually, in fact; but her heart was torn

to the depths about this baby Life never would be even what it

had been before Polly left the there entered

an element of self-reproach and continual self-condemnation Adam

felt that if he had been less occupied with Milly York and had

taken proper care of his sister, he would not have lost her Kate

had less time for recriood man to help you this summer, Adam," she said