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Updated: July 16, 2025
One raw February afternoon two years before this March morning, Edith Darrell set out to walk from Millfield, a large manufacturing town, five miles from Sandypoint, home. She had been driven over in the morning by a neighbor, to buy a new dress; she had dined at noon with an acquaintance, and as the Millfield clocks struck five, set out to walk home.
But no there was the name of the town before her...Millfield, Georgia...the same name as in his letter.... She had made no mistake, but he was gone! Gone and without leaving an address.... For a moment her tired mind refused to work; then she roused herself, ran down the stairs again, and rang up the telegraph-office.
The latter, after a moment's pause, broke the seal and read. "Millfield, Georgia. "My dear Miss Brent, "Your letter reached me yesterday and I have thought it over carefully. I appreciate the feeling that prompted it but I don't know that any friend, however kind and discerning, can give the final advice in such matters.
At length they heard the army had made post on the ridge that frowns over the Millfield Plain, and that brave Surrey, with a force from the South, had marched into Northumberland and taken camp. Each hour brought a different tale. Marmion fretted like the impatient charger that "snuffs the battle from afar." It was true that Douglas had changed in his demeanor, had grown cold and silent.
At long intervals, down by-paths and across fields, there were some half dozen habitations, between Millfield and Sandypoint that was all. Faster, faster came the white whirling flakes; an out-and-out February snow storm had set in. Again should she turn back? She paused half a minute to debate the question. If she did there would be a sleepless night of terror for her nervous father at home.
Furze went no further with the subject, and was inclined to proceed with the man at the foundry. "It will be too late if we wait till the lock is repaired, sir. I understand it will be three weeks really. Will you write to Ditchfield and tell them five tons are to come to Millfield Sluice? We will then cart it from there. That will be the cheapest and the best way."
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