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Updated: May 26, 2025
She was back in a short while, though, and not quite so cheerful. Just as she reached the kitchen Ephraim came in at the other door. "Who hev been meddlin' with my new turnip-bed?" he demanded. He did not see Esther. "What's the matter with your turnip-bed?" asked Anna shortly.
"Have 'ee found her, missie?" she asked, taking no further notice of Ephraim. "No," said Esther anxiously, "she isn't in the house, I'm sure." Anna always grew cross when she was frightened. "Here," she cried, turning sharply on Ephraim, "never mind your old turnip-bed.
Making our way as well as we could toward the gaping rent in the deck, we saw that the turnip-bed had gone down bodily into the boarder's room. He did not hesitate, but scrambled down his narrow stairs. I followed him. He struck a match that he had in his pocket, and lighted a little lantern that hung under the stairs. His room was a perfect rubbish heap.
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