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 trouble with Cicero. I am afraid any other blow would be the means of killing her." And she sez agin, as she had said before, "I could never be happy, never, if I wuz the means of breaking her heart, and so I don't know what to do."

"Well," sez I, "you're young yet, you and Tom; you can wait a spell and trust the Lord and ask Him to help you out of your wilderness."

"Oh, I do, Aunt Samantha! I ask Him, and I trust Him, or I couldn't live. He has seemed so much nearer than ever before since I have been so wretched and haven't known what to do."

"Well, you know who said that all things work together for good to them that love God, and if you do love Him the promise is made to you, and you must lay holt of it."

And then she went on and told me more about Tamer, and I did pity her, pity her like a dog. She said when Cicero wuz sent away her Pa, in the first hours when he wuz most dead with shame and mortification, told his wife she wuz the cause of it all; she had filled his brain with stories of vice and crime, and Cicero had acted out what his brain had been filled with, and from what Anna said I guess Hamen throwed Arabeller in her face and told her she had, for the sake of convenience and what she called gentility, just schooled Cicero in morbid romance and vicious adventure, and he sez, "You are now reaping what you have sown." Anna said her Ma went into one hysterick fit after another, and she had to git her Pa out of the room and take care of her herself day after day, and sez she, "They are so cool to each other, now, I don't believe they will ever be even