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The Loom of Destiny stones from one side of the garden and green apples from the other. The stones, of course, came from Peggy's side. Miss Peggy never believed in doing things by halves.

Then followed three weeks of terrible loneliness, which might have ended either tragically or in an out-and-out elopement, had not the unstable Peggy purchased a brindled street pup for eight pennies, three silver spoons carried away from the table for purposes of exchange in general, and the gardener's wheelbarrow, whose disappearance, by the way, Hawkins could never account for.

But the brindled pup was currish and cowardly and mongrel to the backbone, and after being overfed and kicked and scuffed and dragged reluctantly about by Peggy for one week, he made his timely escape and was seen no more.

Then Peggy fell on evil days, and everything in some way went wrong with her. If she was locked up in the Blue Room she drew figures on the wall paper, and if she was sent to bed without dinner—for Peggy dined at 38