"
"What girl?"
"Next door. If you want Excitement, they've got it. The
mother is in hysterics and there's a party searching the beech
for her body, The truth is, of course, if that towle means
anything"
"That Reg has run away with her, of course," said Mrs.
Beecher, in a resined tone. "I wish he would grow up and learn
somthing. He's becoming a nusance. And when there are so many
Interesting People to run away with, to choose that chit!"
Yes, she said that, And in my retreat I could but sit and
listen, and of course perspire, which I did freely. Mrs. Patten
went away, after talking about the "scandle" for some time. And
I sat and thought of the beech being searched for my Body, a
thought which filled my Eyes with tears of pity for what might
have been, I still hoped Mrs. Beecher would go to bed, but she
did not. Through the key hole I could see her with a Book,
reading, and not caring at all that Mr. Beecher's body, and mine
to, might be washing about in the cruel Sea, or have eloped to
New York.
I lothed her.
At last I must have slept, for a bell rang, and there I was
still in the closet, and she was ansering it.
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