For
this Hannah fully intended doing. How, or when, or by what agency, she
could not tell, but sometime in the future, restitution would be made,
either to Elizabeth or her heirs. She had calculated the interest on the
money, and resolved yearly to lay by that amount for the benefit of the
Rogers heirs. Everything pertaining to Carnarvon she read up, knowing
perfectly its history, where it was situated, how to reach it, and
almost fancying that she knew the very house where the peddler had
lived, and where possibly Elizabeth was still living. And some day she
would find the place and give up the money and will, and tell as much of
the past as was necessary to tell, but no more.
And with this end in view she lived her dreary, monotonous life, which
knew no change, except on the rare intervals when her young brother
Burton, came up from Boston to spend a few days with the father and
sister from whom he was growing estranged so fast; for between them and
himself there was nothing common, and he was always glad when his short
visit was over, and he was free to return to the life more in accordance
with his taste than that at the farm-house.
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