Even Gog and Magog have an air of pricking up their ears to hear the footsteps of unseen guests . I 'll run over to see Leslie before I frighten myself with my own fancies , as I did long ago in the matter of the Haunted Wood . I 'll leave my house of dreams to welcome back its old inhabitants . My fire will give them my good-will and greeting -- they will be gone before I come back , and my house will be mine once more . Tonight I am sure it is keeping a tryst with the past . '' Laughing a little over her fancy , yet with something of a creepy sensation in the region of her spine , Anne kissed her hand to Gog and Magog and slipped out into the fog , with some of the new magazines under her arm for Leslie . `` Leslie 's wild for books and magazines , '' Miss Cornelia had told her , `` and she hardly ever sees one . She ca n't afford to buy them or subscribe for them . She 's really pitifully poor , Anne . I do n't see how she makes out to live at all on the little rent the farm brings in . She never even hints a complaint on the score of poverty , but I know what it must be . She 's been handicapped by it all her life . She did n't mind it when she was free and ambitious , but it must gall now , believe ME . I 'm glad she seemed so bright and merry the evening she spent with you . Captain Jim told me he had fairly to put her cap and coat on and push her out of the door . Do n't be too long going to see her either . If you are she 'll think it 's because you do n't like the sight of Dick , and she 'll crawl into her shell again . Dick 's a great , big , harmless baby , but that silly grin and chuckle of his do get on some people 's nerves . Thank goodness , I 've no nerves myself . I like Dick Moore better now than I ever did when he was in his right senses -- though the Lord knows that is n't saying much .
I was down there one day in housecleaning time helping XXXXX a bit , and I was frying doughnuts .
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