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Show f her half hours of measuring the nty's length, she halted, breathing on her frost-bitten fingers. Sho dfew "out her shoulders tho blanket which W covered Wco Jerry In his hut MJJ. Her mind brought bnck to tho baby y off In some unknown place, she d weakly as sho replenished the "f. Had tho wicked ones of tho rth made Jerry forget Daddy Hop-"M Hop-"M who up In Auburn was Ignorant tils whereabouts? Many times Polly "M taken up her pencil to wrlto him f he child, but It always dropped em her lingers before It reached the iJ? DnUl,y could not d0 anything; k'art WUld "0t ndd t0 hls beavy She was at tho stove, her cold, stiff "Kcrs spread over It, when tho sound i footsteps outsldo sent her headlong L"e ,1Ioor Appallingly terrified, sho ""Kged It open. Then, in deadening silence, Lye "fser and Lnrry Ulshop carried a K handle through tho doorway and tw ''own on Polly's bed, Heovy.llddert, tho girl gazed upon It, ZmV wI n Joy. Joy nt thb Jlit of Old Marc's misery; joy at ftlBhif.,?81'1 of Kett,"K von- T,, Wtful emotion that surged through tliB .M,euelntlon on,y by contrast to hm i K ,H of n fcw nonths back, tn her willing egs- had trotted the iry over to help every ope that itnii l?.r' lt wasn't tho same Polly tllM ., hs ,,(1y mtca her ot nnd lie hundlo none too lightly. W i. " h', )f a t,,,,e Kcttln' 'cr Wii,i .:.' BrmvIotl L' "riieger. fliv e ' " "k0 ,f B ,nllllon craz- m hnwlln' over the hills. Hut CwBht 'er Ju8t tl,e wnwI-Now ui, ?,1 ,,)U '"" with 'cr, brat I" ' tacni """J' K'c'"cd' through tho J0 Interminable days for tic.th- kTr ?m' youI" 8ho onlerod, Wav- fh k ""a .nt thera "aM' kp '' about till I Rot donor CT,r ,,nuUo for th0 "" n i ! ,, ' 0,,o; ,'"t L"rry niobop "S , . ,c H'v,t w,,"e 1' stood. hAwm,ln' 10"y "opsins," he ' ,, , ' ejre turning from the 'he rigid girl, "If she It Old- |