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Then Tom went to Maude, who, since the shock of the night before, had lain as if she were dead, except for her eyes, in which there was a new and wondrous light, and which looked up lovingly at Tom as he came in and kissed her, a most unusual thing for him to do. 'Dear Tom, she whispered, 'come closer to me, and as he bent down to her, she continued, 'is every thing Jerrie's? 'Yes, or will be.
Then Jerrie's face, so pale before, flushed scarlet, and her eyes had in them a wild look which Harold construed into fear, as, without a word, she laid the box in his hand, and then stood watching him is he opened it. Harold's face was whiter than Jerrie's had been, and his voice trembled as he said, in a whisper: 'Mrs. Tracy's diamonds! 'Yes, Mrs.
Jerrie's voice trembled a little, and after they were seated she was silent until Harold said to her: 'You were going to tell me of Maude; then she started and replied: 'Yes; she wanted so much to see you and tell you herself. I don't know what she meant, but she said she had made a mistake, and I must tell you so, and that you would understand it.
Only Frank and one other knew just what she meant, although a sudden suspicion darted through Jerrie's mind, and, when Arthur looked helplessly at her, she whispered to him: 'Never mind what she means her mind may be wandering; but say that you forgive him, no matter what it is.
Tom had told his story rapidly, while Harold listened breathlessly, until he suggested the arrest of Peterkin, when he exclaimed: 'No, no, Tom. No; don't you see that would mix Jerrie's name up with the diamonds, and that must not be. She must not be mentioned in connection with them until she speaks for herself; and, besides, I do not believe it was Peterkin who took them.
Crawford, while Nina and Marian Raymond were there constantly; and Billy went to Springfield for a chair in which to wheel his sister to the cottage, for she could not yet mount into the dog-cart; and Tom and Dick whittled on until the cross and the grave-stone were finished, and, with a sickly smile, Tom said to Dick: 'Would you cut Jerrie's name upon it?
Laying his hand on Jerrie's shoulder, Tom said to her: 'Sit here with me under the pines while I tell you what for a long time I have wanted to tell you, and which may as well be told at once.
Frank Tracy, for me who wronged her so. God bless Jerrie, and give her many years of happiness when I am dead and gone, which will not now be long. I am coming very soon, Maude; sooner than you think, and shall never see Jerrie's little boy, God bless him!
As these last were rather soiled and had no them patches of paint, Jerrie was attacking them with a will, when her grandmother called out in great trepidation: 'Jerrie, Jerrie, do wipe your hands and come quick! Here's Tom Tracy hitching his horse at the gate. Jerrie's first impulse was to do as her grandmother bade her, and her second to stay where she was.
'No; oh, no! Dick answered, with a gasp. 'She may be better to-morrow. When, after a few days, the crisis was past, and Jerrie's strong constitution triumphed over the disease which had grappled with it, the whole town wore a holiday air as the people said to each other gladly: 'Jerrie is better; Jerrie will live!
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