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"Don't be afraid," said the voice of the woman who, with her children, had spent that day in the nook farther up the beach. "The little girls were asleep, and I came here to listen to the folks sing. That's the reason I haven't driven on to-day, because I hoped the folks would sing again to-night, the way they did last night. I haven't heard hymn-singing for years, before.
As she did so, a light flashed into her face, and she looked up to find Dominie Graves towering over her, his brows caught together with anger. "So Miss Skinner is the thief who takes our milk! The hymn-singing girl!... Ah, it is you!" Tessibel dropped her eyes, still holding the can of milk. "I air a-stealin' yer milk," she said presently, lifting her gaze. "Air ye goin' to let me have it?"
Your own master for seventeen years mixed up in a lot of jobs it wouldn't do to go blabbing to the Mounted Police and then to finish up with those hymn-singing fellows! George was most certainly a fool! Yet dollars ought to be screwed out of him somehow.
Sometimes the hymn-singing and praying, and "Sistering" and "Brothering" get on my nerves, until I almost scream, but when I remember how heavenly good to me they are I'm all contrition. I have even been invited to write for the Mission papers, now isn't that sufficient glory for any sinner? Your letters are such comforts to me! I read them over and over and actually know parts of them by heart!
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