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st three he knocked at the door again. He gave his message from outside the threshold this time. Emmy Lou must come home. Miss Cordelia said so. Emmy Lou's papa had come. Emmy Lou heard Papa--who came a hundred miles once a month to see her. Would Emmy Lou say she was sorry? Emmy Lou was not sorry, she could not. Miss Lizzie shut the door in Tom's face. Later Aunt Cordelia, bonnet on, returning from the school, explained to her brother-in-law. Her brother-in-law regarded her thoughtfully through his eye-glasses. He was an editor, and had a mental habit of classifying people while they talked, and putting them away in pigeon-holes. While Aunt Cordelia talked he was putting her in a pigeon-hole marked "Guileless." "She stood on the outside of the door, Brother Richard," said Aunt Cordelia, quite flushed and breathless, "with the door drawn to behind her. She's a terrifying woman, Richard. She said it was a case for discipline. She said she would allow no interference. My precious baby! And I kept on giving her iron----" Uncle Charlie had come out with the buggy to take his brother-in-law driving. "What did you come back without her for?" demanded Uncle Charlie. Aunt Cordelia turned on Uncle Charlie. "You go and see why," said Aunt Cordelia. Truly an Aunt Cordelia is the last one to stand before a Miss Lizzie. Uncle Charlie took his brother-in-law in the buggy, and they drove to the school. Emmy Lou's father went in. Uncle Charlie sat in the buggy and waited. Uncle Charlie wondered if it was right. Miss Lizzie was one of three. One was in an asylum. One was kept at home. And Miss Lizzie, with her rages, taught. But could one speak, and take work and bread from a Miss Lizzie? When papa came down, he had Emmy Lou, white-cheeked, by the hand. He had also a sternness about his mouth. "I got her, you see," he explained with an assumption of comical chagrin, "but with limitations. She's got to say she's sorry, or she can't come back." "I'm not sorry," said Emmy Lou wearily, but with steadiness. "Stick it out," said Uncle Charlie, who knew his Emmy Lou. "She needn't go back this year," said Aunt Cordelia when she heard, "my precious baby!" "I will teach her at home," said Aunt Louise. "There must be other Green and Gold Books," said papa, "growing on that same tree." But Uncle Charlie, with brows drawn into a frown, was wondering. ALL THE WINDS OF DOCTR
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