I'm going to try to stop it." Then fell a moment of silence.

Soon she said: "There's a bitter wind blowing and there's no great hurry about the rails, I guess.

You sit here by the fire and read your book this forenoon.

Maybe it will help you to find your work." So it happened that the events of Harry's morning found their place in the diary which Sarah and Samson kept.

Long afterward Harry added the sentences about the razor.
That evening Harry read aloud from the _Life of Henry Clay_, while Sarah and Samson sat listening by the fireside.