If they would only wait a few years ! But there is no use hoping for that . Mother cries all the time about it . She has lived at the Cove farm for over thirty years and she says she ca n't live away from it now . Elsie -- that 's my sister -- and I do all we can to cheer her up , but we ca n't do much . Oh , if I was only a man ! '' The lad shut his lips together -- how much his mouth was like his father 's -- and looked out seaward with troubled blue eyes . Turner smiled another grim smile . Oh , Neil Jameson , your old score was being paid now ! Yet something embittered the sweetness of revenge . That boy 's face -- he could not hate it as he had accustomed himself to hate the memory of Neil Jameson and all connected with him . `` What was your mother 's name before she married your father ? '' he demanded abruptly . `` Lisbeth Miller , '' answered the boy , still frowning seaward over his secret thoughts . Turner started again . Lisbeth Miller ! He might have known it . What woman in all the world save Lisbeth Miller could have given her son those eyes and curls ? So Lisbeth had married Neil Jameson -- little Lisbeth Miller , his schoolboy sweetheart . He had forgotten her -- or thought he had ; certainly he had not thought of her for years .
But the memory of her came back now XXXXX a rush .
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