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The  next:  instant  Nancy  Pansy  had  slipped  through  her
                             little  hole  in  the  fence,  through  which  she  had  so  often

                             gone,  and  was  in  the  old  doctor’s  yard ;  and  when,  five  min­
                             utes  afterward,  Tom  Adams  marched  his  men  up  the  walk
                             and  surrounded  and  entered  the  house,  Nancy  Pansy,  her
                             broken  doll  in  her  arms,  was  sitting  demurely  on  the  edge
                             of  a  large  chair,  looking at  him  with  great,  wide-open,  danc­

                             ing  eyes.    A   little  princess  could  not  have  been  grander,
                             and  iI  she  had  hidden  Harry  Hunter  behind  her  chair,  she
                             could  not  have  shown  more  plainly  that  she  had  given
                             him  warning.
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