Her father and I were so proud of her -- too proud , I suppose . She had her little faults -- she was too fond of dress and gaiety , but then she was so young , and we indulged her . Then Bert Williams came to Lindsay to work in the factory . He was a handsome fellow , with taking ways about him , but he was drunken and profane , and nobody knew anything about his past life . He fascinated Missy . He kept coming to see her until her father forbade him the house . Then our poor , foolish child used to meet him elsewhere . We found this out afterwards . And at last she ran away with him , and they were married over at Peterboro and went there to live , for Bert had got work there . We -- we were too hard on Missy . But her father was so dreadful hurt about it . He 'd been so fond and proud of her , and he felt that she had disgraced him . He disowned her , and sent her word never to show her face here again , for he 'd never forgive her . And I was angry too . I did n't send her any word at all . Oh , how I 've wept over that ! If I had just sent her one little word of forgiveness , everything might have been different . But Father forbade me to . `` Then in a little while there was a dreadful trouble . A woman came to Peterboro and claimed to be Bert Williams 's wife -- and she was -- she proved it .
Bert cleared out and was never seen again XXXXX these parts .
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