The next weekend arrived and she made her decision. The place was pockmarked with window-like holes everywhere—people were always 138 falling into them and breaking bones--it was for these lookouts why she had chosen it. What duty does a girl owe to any one before her father? Obedience to him, that is surely the first law. The procession had just got into line of march, when a dreadful groan, mixed with yells, hootings, and execrations, was heard. " "Oh, Ruth couldn't put it on paper, to be sure; but there was no reason to hide the source. “I haven’t a scrap—of this sort of aversion. She found herself alone in the train asking herself what she must do next, and trying not to think of herself as cut off from home or any refuge whatever from the world she had resolved to face. “Do you mean, aunt,” she asked, “that my father thought I had gone off—with some man?” “What else COULD he think? Would any one DREAM you would be so mad as to go off alone?” “After—after what had happened the night before?” “Oh, why raise up old scores? If you could see him this morning, his poor face as white as a sheet and all cut about with shaving! He was for coming up by the very first train and looking for you, but I said to him, ‘Wait for the letters,’ and there, sure enough, was yours. Not up here, I think.
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