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Herbert Bannister, whose mind was devoted to business and the happiness
of his sister, was well pleased with this arrangement, and about three
o'clock in the afternoon the buggy containing the two stopped in front of
the Cobhurst portico.
The front door was open, and they could see through the hall and the open
back door into the garden beyond.
Dora laughed as she said, "This is just what happened when I came here
before,--everything wide open, as though there were no flies nor dogs nor
strangers."
Herbert got out and rang the bell: he rang it twice, but no one came.
Dora beckoned him to her.
"It is of no use," she said; "that also happened when I came before.
They don't live in the house, at least in the daytime. But Herbert,
there is a man."
At this moment, the negro Mike was seen at a little distance, hurrying
along with a tin pitcher in his hand. Herbert advanced, and called to
him, and Mike, with his pitcher, approached.
"The boss," he said, in response to their inquiries, "is down in the big
meadow, helpin' me get in the hay.


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