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The old man looked at the town ahead and did not like it, but then he returned to thoughts of Toht to hi to keep To can coive up the very thing we've wanted, nothe ehts wetter? You ht as well force the food from our mouths as take this one from us

And he looked at the boy slu so peacefully at the bottom of the boat The boy whimpered with so and changing The trap"

"There, there, boy" LaFarge stroked the boy's soft curls and Tom ceased

LaFarge helped wife and son from the boat

"Here we are!" Anna s to the raphs, watching people, ar by in the crowded streets

"I wish I was home," said Tom

"You never talked that way before," said the hts in town"

"Stay close to et trapped"

Anna overheard "Stop talking that way; co!"

LaFarge noticed that the boy held his hand LaFarge squeezed it "I'll stick with you, To and it worried hi"

"Nonsense, we'll spend the evening," said Anna

They crossed a street, and three drunken men careened into the about, and then LaFarge stood stunned

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"Where is he?" asked Anna irritably "Hiets Tom!" she called

Mr LaFarge hurried through the crowd, but Toone