Lovell came back to the Stetsons ' the next evening . In the interval he had seen Aunt Sally and Uncle Tom . The meeting had been both glad and sad . Lovell had also seen other people . `` I 've bought Uncle Tom 's old house from Peter Townley , '' he said quietly , `` and I want you folks to help me out with my plans . Uncle Tom and Aunt Sally ai n't going to spend their golden wedding in the poorhouse -- no , sir . They 'll spend it in their own home with their old friends about them . But they 're not to know anything about it till the very night . Do you s ` pose any of the old furniture could be got back ? '' `` I believe every stick of it could , '' said Mrs. Stetson excitedly . `` Most of it was bought by folks living handy and I do n't believe one of them would refuse to sell it back . Uncle Tom 's old chair is here to begin with -- Aunt Sally give me that herself . She said she could n't bear to have it sold . Mrs. Isaac Appleby at the station bought the set of pink-sprigged china and James Parker bought the grandfather 's clock and the whatnot is at the Stanton Grays ' . '' For the next fortnight Lovell and Mrs. Stetson did so much travelling round together that Jonah said genially he might as well be a bachelor as far as meals and buttons went . They visited every house where a bit of Aunt Sally 's belongings could be found . Very successful they were too , and at the end of their jaunting the interior of the little house behind the apple trees looked very much as it had looked when Aunt Sally and Uncle Tom lived there . Meanwhile , Mrs. Stetson had been revolving a design in her mind , and one afternoon she did some canvassing on her own account . The next time she saw Lovell she said : `` We ai n't going to let you do it all . The women folks around here are going to furnish the refreshments for the golden wedding and the girls are going to decorate the house with golden rod . ''
The evening XXXXX the wedding anniversary came .
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