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 when she is took from me, I picked out the text 'Strange are the mysterious ways of Providence,' and, sez she, "I wet two handkerchiefs wet as sop with my tears right there in the middle of the night."

Oh, Albina Ann thought enough of her, I could see that, and kep' her in her mind day and night. And the day I let her dress out for the second time, that wuz the time she went out with her Uncle Josiah to help rake the meadow and come in laughin' and rosy on top of the load jest as Dr. Phillip drove into the yard, makin' her face look rosier than ever.

Well, that day Albina Ann writ to me agin, and sez she, "I write to you, for I know that Dora is too feeble to write to me, and I want you to tell me, and tell me plain, if you think she is going to live until fall, for I must, if she is in immediate danger, I must leave Henry and his wife and the twins, sick as they be, for I must, I must see my darling, my idol! once more."

Well, I writ her a sort of a comfortin' letter, that would settle her mind some and stiddy it; all the while I wuz writin' I wuz hearin' Dora's ringin' laugh out in the front yard, where Dr. Phillip and she stood a-talkin' and laughin' with my companion.

Well, Dr. Phillip wuz here about every day, and it wuz plain enough to see what wuz in his mind; he had never paid any attention to a girl before in his life as I ever hearn on, and if I wuz any judge of girls (and I fancy I am a splendid judge) Dora wuz jest as fond of him as he wuz of her. Le Flam, that poor dissipated chap, I felt had only stood in the vestibule of her fancy, but Dr. Phillip I believed had opened the door to her heart and walked in there to stay.

Well, I felt that all I had to do wuz to set down and