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 help her, it 's not for me to be stand-offish," he said to himself. "Do you think you would like to stay in such a quiet place, with old-fashioned people?" Mr. Larsen asked. "I should n't think you could find a better place to work, if that 's what you want."

"I think mother would like to have me with people like that," Thea replied. "And I 'd be glad to settle down most anywhere. I 'm losing time."

"Very well, there 's no time like the present. Let us go to see Mrs. Lorch and Mrs. Andersen."

The minister put his violin in its case and caught up a black-and-white checked traveling-cap that he wore when he rode his high Columbia wheel. The three left the church together.