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Updated: May 21, 2025
She seemed to have relaxed and did not give Katie that sense of something smoldering within her. Katie sat beside her, an arm thrown lightly about Ann's shoulders lightly but guardingly. Neither of them talked much. Mrs. Prescott and Mrs. Leonard were "visiting"; the men talking of some affairs of Mr. Osborne's.
She lifted a laughing gesture to the cliff. "They?" "William and Benjamin." She said the names with slow pleasure, smiling at his puzzled face. "It all came out when I told him that I knew you and that Uncle William lived here. He saw in a flash everything! We started next day." He had put an arm about her, guardingly. "We'll go hunt up a priest," he said. "Now?" "At once!" decisively.
To change a subject which he found wrought too powerfully on the recently-regained serenity of his mind, he affectionately inquired for the amiable boy he had seen take so touching an interest in the mournful errand to the church-yard on that ever-remembered day, and who, like a ministering seraph, had so guardingly watched the exposed head of his revered master, under the pitiless element then pouring down.
It was one thing to run away from something that you hated, but it was another to jump into a new life where one neither knew nor was known. Betty began to shrink inexpressibly from it all. Not that she wanted to go back! Oh, no; far from it! But once when they passed a little white cemetery with tall dark fir trees waving guardingly above the white stones she looked out almost wistfully.
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