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 "Yes," she answered bravely, "we will try."

It was a great undertaking and they shook hands upon it. They did not look very large, those two, under the shadow of the tall pines and of the vast, broken walls, as they stood beside the pool. They seemed, indeed, to be pledging themselves to the following of an impossible purpose. Yet, as Betsey's firm vigorous hand met David's hard brown one, suddenly it became a plan that might come true.