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The Seeker

CHAPTER VI
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She says she has passed through nearly every stage of unbelief there is, but that she feels the Lord is going to bring her back at last to rest in the shadow of the Cross." As Aunt Bell could be heard creaking heavily in a willow rocker on the piazza near-by, the young man suppressed a comment that arose within him.
"Only, unbelievers are apt to be fatiguing" the girl continued, in a lower tone.

"You know Aunt Bell's husband, Uncle Chester--the meekest, dearest little man in the world, he was--well, once he disappeared and wasn't heard of again for over four years--except that they knew his bank account was drawn on from time to time.

Then, at last, his brother found him, living quietly under an assumed name in a little town outside of Boston--pretending that he hadn't a relative in the world.

He told his brother he was just beginning to feel rested.

Aunt Bell said he was demented.


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