"I had been there about three weeks before I found it out, though I
guess it had been going on ever since they had been in the house,
and that was most four months. They hadn't said anything about it,
and I didn't wonder, for there they had just bought the house and
been to so much expense and trouble fixing it up.
"Well, I went there in September. I begun my school the first
Monday. I remember it was a real cold fall, there was a frost the
middle of September, and I had to put on my winter coat. I
remember when I came home that night (let me see, I began school on
a Monday, and that was two weeks from the next Thursday), I took
off my coat downstairs and laid it on the table in the front entry.
It was a real nice coat--heavy black broadcloth trimmed with fur; I
had had it the winter before. Mrs. Bird called after me as I went
upstairs that I ought not to leave it in the front entry for fear
somebody might come in and take it, but I only laughed and called
back to her that I wasn't afraid. I never was much afraid of
burglars.
"Well, though it was hardly the middle of September, it was a real
cold night.
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