`` Oh , Mrs. Wiley 'll hunt me up , '' said Mary . `` It 's likely she 's on my trail before this . I might stay here till she finds me , I s ` pose , if your folks do n't mind . I was a darn fool ever to think of skipping out . She 'd run a weasel to earth . But I was so misrebul . '' Mary 's voice quivered , but she was ashamed of showing her weakness . `` I hai n't had the life of a dog for these four years , '' she explained defiantly . `` You 've been four years with Mrs. Wiley ? '' `` Yip . She took me out of the asylum over in Hopetown when I was eight . '' `` That 's the same place Mrs. Blythe came from , '' exclaimed Faith . `` I was two years in the asylum . I was put there when I was six . My ma had hung herself and my pa had cut his throat . '' `` Holy cats ! Why ? '' said Jerry . `` Booze , '' said Mary laconically . `` And you 've no relations ? ''
`` Not a darn one that I know XXXXX .
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