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But this she did, and, as Jean heard her go up the back stairs, beneath which she was securely fastened in the pot-closet, she thumped and pounded with renewed energy. But the only response was: "No, no; not for the whorld, darlint, would Oi disthurbe ye and spoil yer purty picter." About an hour later Mrs. Rockwood, returning from her call, met Helen upon the front piazza.
Mary's pot-closet, under the back stairs; that is as dark as a pocket, I'm sure." "There! I knew you'd find a way; you always do. Just the very place, and now I'm going straight down to fix it. Good-bye," and, kissing her mother, away she flew.
"Out in the fields beyant, wid her bit av a camela takin' her picter, Oi'm thinkin'. 'Twas there she said she'd be goin' afther she came out of the pot-closet saints have mercy! Could she git out at all, at all?" and Mary tore down the stairs, with Mrs. Rockwood and Helen close at her heels. She reached the closet, flung open the door, and beheld a spectacle.
"Mary!" cried Jean, as she bounced into the kitchen, where the maid, a typical "child of Erin," who worshipped the very ground Jean trod upon, stood at the sink paring her "taties" for the evening meal, "see my new camera; I'm going to take a picture with it, and I've got to go into your pot-closet to fix the plates." "A picter, is it?
As she jumped up the slide closed, and, quite unaware that it had ever been open, she announced to her nearly convulsed audience: "Well, I'm out at last, and now I hope I can take a picture; come on, Helen," little dreaming that the treacherous sunlight, which flashed through the hall window and straight into the pot-closet, had already printed a most perfect one on the plate.
It's dungeon dhark in the pot-closet." "That is exactly what I want, and, please, don't come near it, or open the door while I'm in there, will you?" "No, no; I'll not come near ye.
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