She would have a vicarious youth in Salome 's . All went according to Judith 's planning until Salome was eighteen , and then trouble after trouble came . Their father , whom Judith had understood and passionately loved , died ; Salome 's young lover was killed in a railroad accident ; and finally Salome herself developed symptoms of the hip-disease which , springing from a trifling injury , eventually left her a cripple . Everything possible was done for her . Judith , falling heir to a snug little fortune by the death of the old aunt for whom she was named , spared nothing to obtain the best medical skill , and in vain . One and all , the great doctors failed . Judith had borne her father 's death bravely enough in spite of her agony of grief ; she had watched her sister pining and fading with the pain of her broken heart without growing bitter ; but when she knew at last that Salome would never walk again save as she hobbled painfully about on her crutch , the smouldering revolt in her soul broke its bounds , and overflowed her nature in a passionate rebellion against the Being who had sent , or had failed to prevent , these calamities . She did not rave or denounce wildly ; that was not Judith 's way ; but she never went to church again , and it soon became an accepted fact in Carmody that Judith Marsh was as rank an infidel as her father had been before her ; nay , worse , since she would not even allow Salome to go to church , and shut the door in the minister 's face when he went to see her . `` I should have stood out against her for conscience ' sake , '' reflected Salome in her pew self-reproachfully . `` But , O dear , I 'm afraid she 'll never forgive me , and how can I live if she does n't ? But I must endure it for Lionel Hezekiah 's sake ; my weakness has perhaps done him great harm already . They say that what a child learns in the first seven years never leaves him ; so Lionel Hezekiah has only another year to get set right about these things . Oh , if I 've left it till too late ! '' When the people began to come in , Salome felt painfully the curious glances directed at her . Look where she would , she met them , unless she looked out of the window ; so out of the window she did look unswervingly , her delicate little face burning crimson with self-consciousness . She could see her home and its back yard plainly , with Lionel Hezekiah making mud-pies joyfully in the corner . Presently she saw Judith come out of the house and stride away to the pine wood behind it . Judith always betook herself to the pines in time of mental stress and strain . Salome could see the sunlight shining on Lionel Hezekiah 's bare head as he mixed his pies . In the pleasure of watching him she forgot where she was and the curious eyes turned on her .
Suddenly Lionel Hezekiah ceased concocting pies , and betook himself XXXXX the corner of the summer kitchen , where he proceeded to climb up to the top of the storm-fence and from there to mount the sloping kitchen roof .
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