Page 290 - Adventures in shadow-land

“ W hy?”
** You’ve got an odd look about you, someway,

but I never see you look so pretty. Has anything

happened ?'r
u No/' said Lucy, quietly, "only I sat down to
rest and fell asleep, and had a very strange dream.

Good night, Uncle Job/’ From that evening
Goody Col>b was never seen in Salem town.

Job Chippit continued his walk, thoughtfully
whittling a little stick, Eefore long he overtook

Master Isaac Torrey, who was walking along the
shore with his head down, seeming to notice noth­

ing but the sand at his feet. Master Torrey had
quite left off his wild ways. He made no more

foolish, fanciful speeches about nymphs and god*
desses, and such nonsense. "A nna Jane had

made a sensible man of him/' said his father-in-
law, “ He was greatly improved/’ said every
one, with the exception of lchabod Sterns and Job

Chippit.

Master Torrey had avoided the wood-carver
since his marriage. His father-in-law thought it
a good sign, “ He had been quite too familiar

with that person/1 thought the colonel. But this
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