What is it,
Sophia?"
"What do you see?"
"Why, I see you."
"Me?"
"Yes, you. What did you think I would see?"
Sophia Gill looked at her sister. "Never as long as I live will I
tell you what I thought you would see, and you must never ask me,"
said she.
"Well, I never will, Sophia," replied Amanda, half weeping with
terror.
"You won't try to sleep in that room again, Sophia?"
"No," said Sophia; "and I am going to sell this house."
THE VACANT LOT
When it became generally known in Townsend Centre that the
Townsends were going to move to the city, there was great
excitement and dismay. For the Townsends to move was about
equivalent to the town's moving. The Townsend ancestors had
founded the village a hundred years ago. The first Townsend had
kept a wayside hostelry for man and beast, known as the "Sign of
the Leopard." The sign-board, on which the leopard was painted a
bright blue, was still extant, and prominently so, being nailed
over the present Townsend's front door. This Townsend, by name
David, kept the village store. There had been no tavern since the
railroad was built through Townsend Centre in his father's day.
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