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Rudder Grange

CHAPTER XII
19/25

The man shouted after me, but I paid no attention.

I did not feel in a good humor with him.
Euphemia was much disturbed by the various occurrences of the afternoon.
She was sorry for the man in the tree; she was sorry that the agent for the Royal Ruby grape had been obliged to go away; and I had a good deal of trouble during dinner to make her see things in the proper light.

But I succeeded at last.
I did not hurry through dinner, and when we had finished I went to my work at the barn.

Tramps are not generally pressed for time, and Pomona had been told to give our captive something to eat.
I was just locking the door of the carriage-house, when Pomona came running to me to tell me that the tramp wanted to see me about something very important--just a minute, he said.

I put the key in my pocket and walked over to the tree.


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