`` Ralph , my own dear brother ! Oh , I always knew you 'd come back . If you knew how I 've looked forward to this day ! '' She was both laughing and crying now . Her face shone with a soft gladness . Ralph Walworth shook his head sadly . `` It 's a poor wreck of a man I am come back to you , Hannah , '' he said . `` I 've never accomplished anything and my health 's broken and I 'm a cripple as ye see . For a time I thought I 'd never show my face back here , such a failure as I be , but the longing to see you got too strong . It 's naught but a wreck I am , Hannah . '' `` You 're my own dear brother , '' cried Miss Hannah . `` Do you think I care how poor you are ? And if your health is poor I 'm the one to nurse you up , who else than your only sister , I 'd like to know ! Come right in . You 're shivering in this wind . I 'll mix you a good hot currant drink . I knew them black currants did n't bear so plentiful for nothing last summer . Oh , this is a good day and no mistake ! '' In twenty-four hours ' time everybody in Prospect knew that Ralph Walworth had come home , crippled and poor . Jacob Delancey shook his head as he drove away from the station with Ralph 's shabby little trunk standing on end in his buggy .
The station master had asked him to take it down to Miss XXXXX 's , and Jacob did not fancy the errand .
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