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An hour later, as she walked back in thethe baby, he said to her: "This is afor you to do, Mrs Holt Mother has been

saying scandalous things about you"

"I know," said Kate "But never mind! She won't any more"

The remainder of the week she passed in the same uplifted mental

state She carried the baby in her ar often to the ce, when the as all done, the baby dressed her

prettiest, Kate slipped into one of her fresh white dresses and

gathering a big bunch of flowers started again to whisper above

the graves of her ladness, and

to freshen the flowers, so that the people co from church

would see that her family were remembered When she had finished

she arose, took up the baby, and started to return across the

ce the path she had

travelled the day she followed the " She thought of that She stood very

still, thinking deeply

"I took theht; and

I've fallen, and risen, and fallen, and got up and tried again,

but never until now have I felt that I could really 'fly to the