They expect to get their money
back with good interest, but it comes kinder hard on them to plunk down
five hundred dollars in cold cash."
[Illustration: "QUINCY READING ALICE'S LETTER TO HER." (ACT III.)]
At that moment Mandy returned, and after asking her for a spoon and a
plate upon which to take a roast apple and some chestnuts upstairs,
Quincy left the young couple together. As he sat before the fire
enjoying his lunch, he resolved that he would buy that grocery store,
cost what it might, and that 'Zeke Pettengill, Alice, and himself would
go to that surprise party.
CHAPTER XXIV.
THE NEW DOCTOR.
Quincy improved the first opportunity offered for safe travelling to
make a visit to the city. He had several matters to attend to. First, he
had not sent his letter to his friend, requesting him to make inquiries
as to Obadiah Strout's war record, for the great snowstorm had come the
day after he had written it. Second, he was going to take Alice's story
to show to a literary friend, and see if he could secure its
publication. And this was not all; Alice had told him, after he had
finished copying the story she had dictated to him, that she had written
several other short stories during the past two years.
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