`` And your mother 's name before she was married ? '' `` Mary Morrow , '' said Chester , wondering what upon earth Clemantiny meant . Clemantiny turned to Miss Salome with an air of surrendering a dearly cherished opinion . `` Well , ma'am , I guess you must be right about his looking like Johnny . I must say I never could see the resemblance , but it may well be there , for he -- that very fellow there -- and Johnny are first cousins . Their mothers were sisters ! '' `` Clemantiny ! '' exclaimed Miss Salome . `` You may well say ` Clemantiny . ' Such a coincidence ! It does n't make you and him any relation , of course -- the cousinship is on the mother 's side . But it 's there . Mary Morrow was born and brought up in Hopedale . She went to Upton when I did , and married Oliver Stephens there . Why , I knew his father as well as I know you . '' `` This is wonderful , '' said Miss Salome . Then she added sorrowfully , `` But it does n't make your running away right , Chester . '' `` Tell us all about it , '' demanded Clemantiny , sitting down on the wood-box . `` Sit down , boy , sit down -- do n't stand there looking as if you were on trial for your life . Tell us all about it . ''
Thus adjured , Chester sat down and told them all XXXXX it -- his moonlight flitting and his adventures in Montrose .
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