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The Chief Legatee

CHAPTER XIV
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Let us move warily and be sure not to confound these prints with those of any other person.

It looks as if a great many people had passed here." "Yes, this is the way to the chicken-coops and out-houses.

But in the ground beyond I think I see a single line of steps again,--small steps like these.

Where can they be leading?
They are deep like those of a person running." "And straggling, like those of a person running in the dark.

See how they waver from the direct line down there, turn, and almost come up against that wood-pile! Whose steps are these?
Whose, Mr.Harper?
Quick! I must see where they go.


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