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148 has been good because our dear ones are with us alive, and in health."

Then Master Lamb knelt down, his head resting on the window-ledge, and when the others had followed his example he prayed to that God who looks upon Whig and Tory alike, that they might have strength given them in the hour of their need.

And as he prayed Master Newcomb, at the head of a party of twenty Tories, was walking rapidly toward Jacob Dean's home, his small heart filled with the delight of wreaking vengeance for the harsh words which had been showered upon him in the past.