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All up by the roots in a few swift weeks! "Shall I go back ?" she asked herself.

"Do I want to go--now that Dad is dead, and most of the girls have gone away, scattered all over the country ?" Again she lapsed.

"I'm too dull to think." She let the pictures drift again.

Church sociables, a Christmas tree, dances, suppers and buggy rides, picnics by the river.