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But the utter desolation of life without her had crumbled the foundation of that determination. In the note he said that his boat-mending days were about over. They would not have lasted that long only he had had no heart for other things. But the letter gave Katie heart for other things! Its unmistakable wretchedness made her superbly radiant. "Why, Worthie," she exclaimed, "just see here!
There was the merry dish-washing, the sweeping and setting to rights, and then all separated to their different tasks, fishing, boat-mending, cooking, photographing or surveying, till the hour of noon brought them together again for the swimming. Roger departed on his wheel, having business in the village.
Was that why he could be moved to no sense of responsibility about stray dogs? Was that why he was a good man for the service and had no ambitions as civilian? And Ann she would like to talk to the boat-mending trouble-maker about Ann: Why Ann, whom one would expect to find sympathetic with the homeless, should be so hard and so queer about forlorn little stray dogs.
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