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The young man thought it should be prevented by law. I said nothing; but I listened and heard from the distance the steady clang, clang, of Carlstrom's hammer upon the anvil. Ketchell, the store-keeper, told me how Carlstrom had longed and planned and saved to be able to go back once more to the old home he had left.
Again and again he had got almost enough money ahead to start, and then there would be an interest payment due, or a death in the family, and the money would all go to the banker, the doctor, or the undertaker. "Of recent years," said Ketchell, "we thought he'd given up the idea. His friends are all here now, and if he went back, he certainly would be disappointed."
"I'd rather find out, out here than in there especially if the thing is coming down." "There goes Trix Severn and Wilbur Ketchell," said Agnes, rather crossly. "They're going to risk it." "Let them go, Aggie," said Neale. "I'm not going into that place until I'm sure." "Nor am I," Ruth announced, with emphasis. "Well, I don't see " Agnes began, when Neale exclaimed: "Wait. Joe's stopped them."
Ruth added her cry to her sister's. The electric lights began to quiver. The whole mass of the roof must be sagging down. Ketchell kicked off his skates and picked them up, preparatory to getting out of the way. And perhaps it was just as well that he had showed no heroism. Had he skated in for the girl, he could not have aided her in any way. Trix started for the front of the snow castle.
At the moment the roof of the snow castle crashed in, the only thought of those in sight of the catastrophe was of Trix Severn. "Oh! save her! save her!" Ruth Kenway cried. "She's killed! I know she is!" wept Agnes, wringing her hands. Joe Eldred and Wib Ketchell were as pale as they could be. None of the little group at the entrance moved for a full minute.
"You make me tired, Joe Eldred," she observed, and without waiting for further parley she shot away into the otherwise empty castle. "Oh! why didn't you stop her?" cried Ruth, anxiously. "I'd like to see anybody stop that girl," growled Joe. "She's as reckless as she can be," said Neale. "Aw, say!" exclaimed Wib, as they called young Ketchell, "is the roof really unsafe?"
Ketchell changed her will, and two nephews were cut off entirely; a very modest and impecunious grandson of Joseph Garrity also was to sustain a severe change of fortune in the near future, if the cards spoke correctly.
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