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The Light in the Clearing

CHAPTER XII
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Her face filled with joy as one damning detail after another came out in the evidence.
Aunt Deel and Uncle Peabody came to the village that day and sat in the court room.

They had dinner with us at the schoolmaster's, but I had little chance to talk with them.

Aunt Deel went up to my room with me and slyly gave me some fresh cookies wrapped in a piece of newspaper which she carried in a little basket bought from the Indians.
"Here's somethin' else," she said.

"I was keepin' 'em for Chris'mas--ayes!--but it's so cold I guess ye better have 'em now--ayes!" Then she gave me a pair of mittens with a red fringe around the wristbands, and two pairs of socks.
I remember that my uncle laughed at the jests of Mr.Hacket but said little and was not, I thought, in good spirits.

They went home before the examination ended.
The facts hereinbefore alleged, and others, were proven, for the tracks fitted the shoes of Amos.


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