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 me all they could about their mother—how patient and resigned and forgiving she was; and, oh! grandmother! this is a great secret—but they told me I might tell you, and I am sure you will be glad to know—they have got their dear mother's body, and buried it decently in their own grounds, and that is such a comfort to them.

"They told me all about it—how one of their kind neighbors kept watch to see what was done with it, and came and told them; and how they all gathered together at their father's house, and the sisters remained with poor Sarah, who was almost beside herself, while their poor old father, with all his sons and sons-in-law, went off at midnight to that awful place to try to recover it. Oh! it would make your heart ache to hear them tell of it.

"There they sat, they said, all alone in the dark, for they did not dare to have a light at that hour in the house, fearing some one might see it and inform against them, or it might betray the party going out or coming home. And so there they sat in the darkness, holding each other's hands, weeping and