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I'll never call him a mongrel cur again, said Mary Lee tenderly.
gpt
If it hadn't been for him, we might never have been found.
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You forget, said Randolph, with a look across the table at Nan,
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If I hadn't come home, I would never have thought of sending him, she acknowledged.
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He ought to have a medal, bless him.
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So he shall have, said Ran, and he gravely provided a tin medal on which was scratched:
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For Heroic Service.
gpt
Are you going to church, Nan?
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I don't know, she replied.
gpt
I feel as if I had been drawn through a knot-hole this morning. Of course, Mary Lee won't go and maybe I'll stay at home to keep her company, though she's still asleep, poor child.
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I thought if you were going I'd wait for you,
gpt
I thought you didn't care for my company,
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That was yesterday, returned Ran.
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Besides, I didn't say I didn't want your company; I said I didn't want you to stay up there on the mountain and so I didn't, for I was afraid then that those two were lost and I knew it would be harder for you there than at home. Then I knew if we set out on a search you couldn't go and it would not do to leave you all alone.
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I realized all that afterward,
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Then we have made up,
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Of course, returned Nan.
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I was miffed only for a few minutes. I knew before we got home that you spoke as you did so I wouldn't insist upon staying. Still, she added,
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Say, did any of you see my watch?
gpt
Why, no, replied the two.
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Have you lost it, Phil?
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I'm afraid so. I must have caught the chain on something in the woods and snapped it so the watch fell out when I stooped over. The end of the chain was hanging from the buttonhole when I looked last night after I came home, but the watch was gone.
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Isn't that too bad? said Nan, sympathetically.
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You will have a hard time finding it, I am afraid.
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I'm afraid so. I wouldn't lose that watch for anything, and I'm going to hunt high and low for it.
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We'll all help, said Ran.
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We'll organize a search party, Phil, and go up the mountain to-morrow afternoon.
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Say, that will be fine, said Phil, gratefully. His watch was one of his dearest possessions; he had not had it very long and was feeling very hopeless over its loss.
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I don't suppose we shall find it, he went on,
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She's asleep, Nan told him.
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Aunt Sarah said we were not to disturb her. I think she is only worn out. You are all right, aren't you, Phil?
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Yes, indeed, or I would be if I hadn't lost my watch. They are waiting for me; I must go or I will be late for church.
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I reckon I'll go, said Nan suddenly. Miss Sarah, the twins and Ashby had gone on, and soon Nan followed with Randolph. She was feeling very thankful for her sister's safety, and she was not the only one of that congregation who sent up a silent prayer of gratitude for the deliverance of two children from the