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The Girl From Keller’s

CHAPTER I
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A moose head hung above a rack of expensive English guns, a piano stood in a corner, and lumps of the _gumbo_ soil that lay about the floor had gathered among its legs.

Greasy supper plates occupied the end of the table, and the boards round the stove were blackened by the distillate that dripped from the joint where the pipe went through the ceiling.
These things were significant, particularly the last, since one need not burn green wood, which had caused the tarry stain, and the joint could have been made tight.
Then Festing glanced at Charnock.

The latter was a handsome man of about Festing's age.

He had a high color and an easy smile, but he had, so to speak, degenerated since he came to Canada.

Festing remembered his keenness and careless good-humor when he began to farm, but disappointment had blunted the first, though his carelessness remained.
He had been fastidious, but one now got a hint of a coarse streak and there was something about his face that indicated dissipation.


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