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 "Why didn't Ury hear me?" sez I scornfully.

"Oh, there is a limit to the shrillest voice. You couldn't expect to talk back and forth with folks clear to the Klondyke."

Well, there wuzn't no use argyin', and he has throwed that eppisode in my face ever sence, and I spoze he always will.

But good land, I don't care; I know that we got rid of Le Flam for good and all, for he didn't make much of any move after that eppisode of advice and warnin' to him. I guess he did write to Dora once or twice, but she never noticed his letters, and it wuzn't but a few months before he married a rich widder.

Well, it wuz on a bright September day that Albina Ann come to Jonesville, after Dora had had only three months, mind you, of common-sense treatment and reasonable livin', and I wish that you could have seen her face as it rested on Dora's for the first time. You see, she come in dretful pimpin' and pensive lookin', for Henry's wife had had a siege and Albina Ann had nursed her faithfully, and Henry, too, and the twins, and they wuz all a-pullin' through.

But bad and wore out as Albina Ann felt, she didn't feel too bad to have that white dotted veil over her made-up face, and her dress tight as tight could be, and sot up on wobblin' heels half a finger from the ground a-pitchin' her kinder forwards. I pitied her. And her first words was, "She is alive, hain't she? Do tell me so! Is she in the spare bedroom? Oh," sez she, "to come from one bed of sickness to another!" and she sithed and kinder groaned, and started for the chamber stairs.

Sez I, "She has gone out for a ride."