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she had clung to the belief that her beloved son would come back to her. And behold! one dark night in winter, when she was sitting in the _chiollagh_ alone, and the wind was loud in the trees, and the doctor upstairs was calling on her to come to bed (
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), she heard a sneck of the garden gate and a step on the gravel path, and it was old Tommy the Mate, who without waiting for her to open the door let a great yell out of him through the window that a