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The Harvester

CHAPTER II
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So don't you go at any tricks or I might pull off your head.

Betsy, if you see the tallest girl you ever saw, and she wears a dark diadem, and has big black eyes and a face so lovely it blinds you, why you have seen Her, and you balk, right on the spot, and stand like the rock of Gibraltar, until you make me see her, too.

As if I wouldn't know she was coming a mile away! There's more I could tell you, but that is my secret, and it's too precious to talk about, even to my best friends.

Bel, bring Betsy to the store-room." The Harvester tossed the hitching strap to the dog and walked down the driveway to a low structure built on the embankment beside the lake.
One end of it was a dry-house of his own construction.

Here, by an arrangement of hot water pipes, he evaporated many of the barks, roots, seeds, and leaves he grew to supply large concerns engaged in the manufacture of drugs.


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