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The Light in the Clearing

CHAPTER XI
13/29

Every day men and women stopped me in the Street to ask what I knew of the murder.

I followed the advice of Bishop Perkins and kept my knowledge to myself.
My life went on at the same kindly, merry pace in the home of the schoolmaster.

The bandages over his eyes had in no way clouded his spirit.
"Ah, now, I wish that I could see you," he said one evening when we were all laughing at some remark of his.

"I love the look of a merry face." I continued to wear the mysterious clothes of Michael Henry, save at chore time, when I put on the spotted suit of homespun.

I observed that it made a great difference with my social standing.


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