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When Elinor and Patricia were alone, Patricia opened the subject that had been occupying her thought for the last few minutes.,Griffin yawned elaborately and then addressed Margaret Howes with lifted eyebrows.,“Train? Is she going away?” The small girl’s face grew sorrowful.,And find it they did, ultimately, in a mysterious and unexpected way. One late June morning each of the farmers who had for season after season toiled with those fishermen without faintest hope of earthly reward awoke to find a mess of fresh lake fish hanging just outside their respective doors. It was a great and wonderful revelation. The circuit minister, Rev. Mr. Reddick, whose love for and trust in his fellow-men was all-embracing, wept when the intelligence was imparted to him, and took for his text on the Sunday following a passage of scripture dealing with the true reward of unselfish serving. It was a stirring sermon, the rebuke of a father to his children who had erred.,"What is it?" asks he, quick to notice any change in her.,CHAPTER XII MR LAWRENCE REFLECTS,Maurice let his kindling fall. "Gee!" he exclaimed, "I've got a piece of Injun turnip in my pocket right now. Ain't that lucky!",“Are—are you hurt bad, Jimmy?” came in a quaking voice.,"Ah," said the old women, "there are those bears.",After a great deal of good-humored bickering and sifting of requests to suit Patricia's repertoire, the tumult gradually quieted and Patricia rose.,"Yes.",“She can’t, you know; she and sister have to work hard to make what we spend now. I don’t do half enough myself.”.