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As soon as the cart stopped, near the hut, he jumped down and approached the two men in the doorway. "Is that the widow McLeish?" he said, pointing to the old woman. They assured him that he was correct, and he approached her. "You are Mrs. Margaret McLeish?" said he. She looked at him in a vague sort of way and nodded. "That's me," said she. "Is it pay for the cart you're after?
"The annuity was to begin with October, and it is now the first of November, so there is eight pounds due to you." "Eight pounds!" she exclaimed, after a moment's thought. "It must be more than that. There's thirty-one days in October!" "That's all right, Mrs. McLeish," said the traveller. "I will pay you the right amount.
There was Delia, the cook, and Christine, her assistant; Swanson, the furnace man; Lockhart, the chauffeur, and Boyles, the washer; Cora, the laundress; Georgia, the scullery-maid; Edgecomb, the gardener, and his four helpers; Beulah and Emma, the upstairs-maids; Bliss, the lodge-keeper, and Jane, his daughter; Frank, the pony-cart driver, and Joe, the coachman; Matson, the stable-boy; Fannie, the seamstress; Rudolph, the carpenter; Miss McLeish, the stenographer and telephone operator; Throckinorton, the dairy-man; Scott, the stockman; John Butts, the handy-man; Melissa, Watson and Hughes.
They stayed there all night, and then they went on with their bundles to the next village, where they succeeded in getting a couple of travelling-bags, into which they put their gold, so that they might appear to be carrying their clothes. "'After a good deal of travel they reached Callao, and there they made inquiries for A. McLeish, but nobody knew of him.
But I really think you had better come into your house, for it is going to be a bad afternoon, and I must get away as soon as I can. I will go, as I came, in the cart, for you won't want it now." Mrs. McLeish stood up as straight as she could, and glanced from the traveller to the two men who had put her out of her home.
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