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The Depot Master

CHAPTER XI
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Margaret leaned over the balusters.
"'Is it the Father ?' she says.

'Oh, dear! what'll I do ?' "'Send some of the other servants to the boy,' says the priest, 'and come down yourself.' "Simeon, lookin' kind of foolish, explained what had become of the other servants.

Father McGrath--that was his name--laughed and shook all over.
"'Very well,' says he.

'Then bring the young man down.

Perhaps he'll be quiet here.' "So pretty soon down come Margaret with Archibald, full of the Old Scratch, as usual, dressed up gay in a kind of red blanket nighty, with a rope around the middle of it.


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