"
"Where are they now?"
"I don't know. Oh!" Adrianna sank gasping feebly into a chair.
"Get her some water, David," sobbed her mother.
David rushed with an impatient exclamation out of the room and
returned with a glass of water which he held to his daughter's
lips.
"Here, drink this!" he said roughly.
"Oh, David, how can you speak so?" sobbed his wife.
"I can't help it. I'm mad clean through," said David.
Then there was a hard bound upstairs, and George entered. He was
very white, but he grinned at them with an appearance of unconcern.
"Hullo!" he said in a shaking voice, which he tried to control.
"What on earth's to pay in that vacant lot now?"
"Well, what is it?" demanded his father.
"Oh, nothing, only--well, there are lights over it exactly as if
there was a house there, just about where the windows would be. It
looked as if you could walk right in, but when you look close there
are those old dried-up weeds rattling away on the ground the same
as ever. I looked at it and couldn't believe my eyes. A woman saw
it, too. She came along just as I did. She gave one look, then
she screeched and ran.
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