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he house, except the kitchen, and stay there, where I can't see even a team pass, with hardly a neighbor in sight. It drives me wild! To think I was such a fool! If he were a poor man, I could stand it; but he's got money enough." "Why don't you make it fly, then?" broke in Miss Crilly. "Bet you I would!" "No, you wouldn't! He had to go with me to pick out the apron, and he fretted like sixty because I would buy one made of decent cloth! I was all in just over that!" "We s'posed he was a nice, pleasant man--it's too bad!" Miss Crilly was the only one who found words for reply. "I don't have anything to read," went on the disappointed woman. "He doesn't want to know anything. He does take a daily newspaper, but that's all. There was a Bible in the house when I came, and two or three schoolbooks--pretty place to live in!" "Get a divorce!" advised Miss Crilly. "I could easy! He'd never fight it--hasn't got life enough. But where could I go?" "I'm afraid you couldn't do anything with Miss Sniffen," said Mrs. Albright sadly. "What do you say, Polly?" smiled Mrs. Tenney. "You look as if you had your advice all ready." "No," answered Polly sorrowfully. "Only you've promised, and it doesn't seem as if you ought to break your promise--just because you don't like it here as well as you thought you would. It isn't that I'm not sorry, Mrs. Dick--I mean, Mrs. Tenney--" Polly hurried to explain. "I'm so sorry I could cry! But it doesn't seem right--to me--perhaps it would be, perhaps I don't know." Polly lifted appealing eyes to the woman's flushed face. "I guess you see things clearer than I do, child! We'll put it to vote. Mrs. Albright, what do you think?" "I hardly know, and, anyway, I can't decide it for you. I suppose I should incline to Polly's opinion." "Miss Sterling? You hold the controlling vote, so be careful!" Mrs. Tenney laughed uncertainly. "It is a hard question, Mrs. Dick. I can hardly imagine a worse hell than having to live with such a man as you picture him, and yet--" "I know! It's three against two! Good-bye, June Holiday Home, with your steam heat and Miss Sniffen! We must adjourn--there's Mrs. Grace and Mrs. Winslow Teed!" For the ride home Polly sat between Miss Crilly and David in Dr. Dudley's car. "Isn't that a great bluff of Miss Sniffen's?" Miss Crilly's tone was too confidential even for Polly's quick ears. The repeated question carried as
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