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Then you passed Crudge's Folly a house of two storeys with a well in the garden." "Yes, yes!" I said. "She lives there," said he. "Behind those shutters!" I cried. "For twenty years she has lived in the midst of us, and no one has seen her during all that time. Not even Robert Lovyes. Aye, she has lived behind the shutters." There he stopped.
Finally she came swiftly across the room and peered into Mr. Crudge's face. "'If you need help, she said, 'I will gladly furnish it. No doubt you will be anxious to go from Tresco at the earliest. No doubt, no doubt you will, she repeated anxiously.
His words caught my breath away, so little did I expect them. "The wife of John Lovyes!" I stammered, "but " And I told him how I had seen Robert Lovyes carry his basket up the path. "Yes," said Wyeth. "Twice a day Robert draws water for her at the well, and once a day he brings her food. It is in his house, too, that she lives Crudge's Folly, that was his name for it, and the name clings.
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