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crowning indignity. The grass grew green over the 

 empty holes by the doorside, but he never forgave 

 her, and they never spoke to each other save in 

 direst necessity, and then in fewest words. Yet 

 they were not wicked folk. She cared for his father 

 and mother in the last years of their life with a 

 devotion that was fairly pathetic when it was seen 

 that f"he old man was untidy to a degree, and abso- 

 lutely oblivious of all her orderly ways and wishes. 

 At their death he sent for and " homed," as the 

 expression ran, a brother of hers who was almost 

 blind, and paid the expenses of her nephew through 

 college — but he died unforgiving; the sight of that 

 beloved Southernwood — in the pigpen — forever 

 killed his affection. 



