The cabman looked helplessly about him with a bewildered, questioning

gaze, as one to whom alone of all men this unheard-of and extraordinary

thing had happened. Then, rubbing his head, he mounted slowly on to the

box and drove away with an uptossed hand appealing to the universe. The

lady smoothed down her dress, pushed back her hair under her little felt

hat, and strode in through the hall-door, which was closed behind her.

As with a whisk her short skirts vanished into the darkness, the two

spectators--Miss Bertha and Miss Monica Williams--sat looking at each

other in speechless amazement. For fifty years they had peeped through

that little window and across that trim garden, but never yet had such a

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sight as this come to confound them.

"I wish," said Monica at last, "that we had kept the field."

"I am sure I wish we had," answered her sister.




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