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out of the ground and was spotted and seamed
with moss, all black and dry after the winter
frosts. He yielded to the temptation to sit
down on it for a minute or two, just to think
about what he would say when he got back to
the kind lady who had given him the York
shilling; how he would break the news that he
had lost her little girl.

So he climbed up to the top of the stone.

Some time before this Mr. Wilfer had come
home to the red brick mansion. He was now
engaged in a very important conversation with
his wife; so important that neither of them
gave a thought to little Betty for some time.

Frederick Wilfer was a young lawyer whose
heart was not in his work and never had been.
He studied a profession to please his parents;
also because he could not discover any way of
gratifying his one romantic desire for travel
and adventure. So he tried not to think of the
impossible and to settle down. Then, while he
was still quite young, he married Betty’s
mother, a lovely girl he had known from child-
hood, and after that the law practice became
a matter of necessity. He worked hard and

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