Chapter 9 - (VERSO)

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when her “schooling” was done. It was only on having this most clearly understood that Sara would consent to go at all. Her last words, called back to her father out though her tears as she and her aunt drove down the lane, were,

“I’ll be back, daddy. In three years I’ll be back. Don’t cry, but just look forward to that.”

He had looked forward to it through the three long, lonely years that followed, in all of which he never saw his darling. Half a continent was between them and Mrs. Adair had vetoed