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Belle and Mrs. Sandage flying up the gravelled path of the unkept lawn. These women, when they saw Abner surrounded by helpers, shrieked out, "Oh, Abner, what's happened to you!"

Mr. Pratt stared at the Sandage women in turn and cried out, "What's happened to you all!"

Beatrice Belle, oddly enough, flew across the porch into Mr. Pratt's arms. The drug clerk hastily deserted Abner for this new charge.

"Oh, Sim! Sim!" wailed Beatrice Belle, sobbing on the clerk's neck.

Mr. Pratt enfolded her.

"Belle, darling, what is the matter? Has anything happened to you?"

Mrs. Haly Sandage was putting her arms out to Abner and crying in a shaken voice, "Oh, Abner, you mustn't be sick now! We need you! Come home at once and see Railroad Jones—Jim's in jail!" The poor wife fell to weeping so violently that she had to lift a hand and hold her ghastly false teeth in her mouth.

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