she said . `` Mrs. Wiley was found dead in her bed the very morning after this Mary-creature ran away . She has had a bad heart for years and the doctor had warned her it might happen at any time . She had sent away her hired man and there was nobody in the house . Some neighbours found her the next day . They missed the child , it seems , but supposed Mrs. Wiley had sent her to her cousin near Charlottetown as she had said she was going to do . The cousin did n't come to the funeral and so nobody ever knew that Mary was n't with her . The people Marshall talked to told him some things about the way Mrs. Wiley used this Mary that made his blood boil , so he declares . You know , it puts Marshall in a regular fury to hear of a child being ill-used . They said she whipped her mercilessly for every little fault or mistake . Some folks talked of writing to the asylum authorities but everybody 's business is nobody 's business and it was never done . '' `` I am sorry that Wiley person is dead , '' said Susan fiercely . `` I should like to go over-harbour and give her a piece of my mind . Starving and beating a child , Mrs. Dr. dear ! As you know , I hold with lawful spanking , but I go no further . And what is to become of this poor child now , Mrs. Marshall Elliott ? '' `` I suppose she must be sent back to Hopetown , '' said Miss Cornelia . `` I think every one hereabouts who wants a home child has one . I 'll see Mr. Meredith to-morrow and tell him my opinion of the whole affair . '' `` And no doubt she will , Mrs. Dr. dear , '' said Susan , after Miss Cornelia had gone .
`` She would stick XXXXX nothing , not even at shingling the church spire if she took it into her head .
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