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going to bring her out here as soon I can, never saying a word. I’ll fetch her though the spruce lane, and when we come to the end of the path I’ll step back, casual-like, and let her go out from under the trees alone, never suspecting. It’ll be worth ten times the trouble to see her big, brown eyes open wide and hear her say, ‘Oh, daddy! Why, daddy!’“

He rubbed his hands again and laughed softly to himself. He was a tall, bent old man, whose hair was snow-white; but whose face was fresh and rosy. His eyes were a boy’s eyes, large, blue, and merry, and his mouth had never got