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 Don't you worry about me—I'm coming through all right."

"H'm!" I said, "I thought you were up against it, and here you are out in the open, after all. You're all right, Bess,—you'll win,—I couldn't carry it off better myself." Then suddenly I happened to think. "Bess," I said, "there's another stone wall that you and I are coming up to by and by, and you want to look out that it doesn't fall on you."

"What one?"

"That other girl."

Bess wrinkled her brows. "I'd almost for gotten," she said; "and that is the very biggest one of all, because it is going to last all the time. Oh, dear, I wish that one would vanish into thin air too."

"Not much, it won't," I said. "That's a sure-enough hurdle, and there's going to be no walking through it or seeing freedom on the other side. I wish you'd make up your mind what you're going to do about it."

Bess pressed her lips together. "I told you what I was going to do about it," she said.