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 in these parts . As soon as we heard about it Father relented , and I went right down to Peterboro to see Missy and bring her home . But she was n't there -- she had gone , nobody knew where . I got a letter from her the next week . She said her heart was broken , and she knew we would never forgive her , and she could n't face the disgrace , so she was going away where nobody would ever find her .
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