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As for the chest come to think, father sent it back to Trethake Water. Reckon it went in the sale." "What sale?" "Why, don't 'ee know? When Reub sold up. That would be about five years after the old folks died. The mill didn' pay after the war, so Reub sold up and emigrated." "Ah! What became of him?" "I did hear he was dead too," said Joshua Martin, "out in Canady somewhere.
This is the story of Thatcher Ellery as it was told to me after his death, which happened one night a few weeks before I came home from school on my first summer holidays. His father, in the early years of the century, had kept the mill up at Trethake Water, two miles above Gantick. There were two sons, of whom Reub, the elder, succeeded to the mill. Nat had been apprenticed to the thatching.
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