"Hawh! ask yer grandmother! All
ye can say is they was roipe to catch
the maladee, whatsomiver! Ye can-
not always tell how 'tis catched, and
whin ye cannot tell, moy graciouz!
ye have got the wurrst koind!"

The two sick men recovered very
nearly at the same time.

One day when Leonard had read
all his accumulated mail and had seen
three or four men officially in his
bedchamber, he told Ruth that a cer-
tain criminal case, the trial of which
had been waiting for his recovery,
would take him to the county-seat,
and would keep him there many
days, probably weeks, except for brief
visits to his office and yet briefer
moments at home.

Ruth gave him a look of tender

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