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I knew what the end of it'd be, an' I had a pirty hard time to bring myself to it, but I done it, an' I'm glad now 'at I did." "Did you reach this decision alone or did some one help you to it?" "Well, I'll tell you how that was. All't I decided in the first place was to tell Uncle Billy, he's the man't I live with. So I told him, an' he said I ought to tell Mrs. Burnham right away.
When I was keekin inta t' winda at the nags, he comes behint me and claps his claw on ma shouther, and he gars me gang wi' him, and open the aad coach-house door, and haad the cannle for him, till he pearked into the deed man't feyace; and, as God's my judge, I sid the corpse open its eyes and wark its mouth, like a man smoorin' and strivin' to talk.
"But what are you doing with him here?" "He's sold, if we c'n find the man't offered a thousand for him a year ago." "Who was he?" But she knew already. Some swift flash of intuition told her there was but one man in Paradise Park who "His name's Haig, an' he's " "Philip Haig!" she murmured. "You know him?" "Yes no. That is, I've heard of him."
He greeted several of the passengers pleasantly, and came down the aisle, punching tickets to the right and left, till he reached the seat where Ralph was. "Ticket?" he asked. "I ain't got any," said the boy. "What's the reason?" "W'y, I lost all my money, an' I couldn't buy one, an' I couldn't see nobody't I knew, an' the man't tended door, he said tell you to pass me up."
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