Susan sent me word to tell you she would be on hand tomorrow . Where are you off to now , Captain ? '' `` I reckon I 'll plough up to the Glen and sit a bit with old Martin Strong . He 's not far from his end and he 's lonesome . He has n't many friends -- been too busy all his life to make any . He 's made heaps of money , though . '' `` Well , he thought that since he could n't serve God and Mammon he 'd better stick to Mammon , '' said Miss Cornelia crisply . `` So he should n't complain if he does n't find Mammon very good company now . '' Captain Jim went out , but remembered something in the yard and turned back for a moment . `` I 'd a letter from Mr. Ford , Mistress Blythe , and he says the life-book is accepted and is going to be published next fall . I felt fair uplifted when I got the news . To think that I 'm to see it in print at last . '' `` That man is clean crazy on the subject of his life-book , '' said Miss Cornelia compassionately . `` For my part , I think there 's far too many books in the world now . '' CHAPTER 29 GILBERT AND ANNE DISAGREE Gilbert laid down the ponderous medical tome over which he had been poring until the increasing dusk of the March evening made him desist . He leaned back in his chair and gazed meditatively out of the window . It was early spring -- probably the ugliest time of the year . Not even the sunset could redeem the dead , sodden landscape and rotten black harbor ice upon which he looked . No sign of life was visible , save a big black crow winging his solitary way across a leaden field . Gilbert speculated idly concerning that crow .
Was he a family crow , XXXXX a black but comely crow wife awaiting him in the woods beyond the Glen ?
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