nishing.

"Might have knawed he wouldn't walk along wi' me arter that," thought
Billy. Then he lifted up his voice and bawled to the diminishing figure,
already no more than a darker blot on the darkness of night.

"For the Lard's love go in quiet an' gradual, or you'll scare the life
out of 'em all."

And the answer came back,--

"I knaw, I knaw; I ban't the man to do a rash deed!"

Mr. Blee chuckled and plodded on through the night while Will strode far
ahead.

Presently he stood beside the wicket of Mrs. Blanchard's cottage and
hesitated between two women. Despite circumstances, there came no
uncertain answer from the deepest well-springs of him. He could not pass
that gate just then. And so he stopped and turned and entered; and she,
his mother, sitting in thought alone, heard a footfall upon the great
nightly silence--a sudden, familiar footfall that echoed to her heart
the music it loved best.

THE END.

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