I know what folks said, and I'll own I found things in her room, but I don't care what folks do to their outsides as long as their insides are right.

Miss Farrel was a real good woman, and she had a kind of hard time, too." "Why, I thought she had a real good place in the high-school; and teachers earn their money dreadful easy." "It wasn't that." "What was it ?" Lucinda hesitated.

"Well," she said, finally, "it can't do her any harm, now she's dead and gone, and I don't know as it was anything against her, anyway.

She just set her eyes by your boarder." "Not Mr.Allen?
You don't mean Mr.Allen, Lucinda ?" "What other boarder have you had?
I've known about it for a long time.

Hannah and me both have known, but we never opened our lips, and I don't want it to go any further now." "How did you find out ?" "By keeping my eyes and ears open.