[The Light in the Clearing by Irving Bacheller]@TWC D-Link bookThe Light in the Clearing CHAPTER XIII 27/33
I heard them say that you and your uncle did right.
Father told mother that he never knew a man so honest as your Uncle Peabody." We went on in silence for a moment. "I guess you know now why I couldn't let you go home with me that night," she remarked. "Yes, and I think I know why you wouldn't have anything more to do with Henry Wills." "I hate him.
He said such horrid things about you and your uncle." In a moment she asked: "What time is it ?" I looked at my new watch and answered: "It wants ten minutes of five." "The stage is in long ago.
They will be coming up this road to meet me. Father was going to take him for a walk before supper." Just then we came upon the Silent Woman sitting among the dandelions by the roadside.
She held a cup in her hand with some honey on its bottom and covered with a piece of glass. "She is hunting bees," I said as we stopped beside her. She rose and patted my shoulder with a smile and threw a kiss to Sally. Suddenly her face grew stern.
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