Excerpt from Craque O'doom Like two night-birds who had. Strayed into the wrong season, a pair of girls flopped about on the snowy walk or huddled together outside Of the Hill-house. The house was lighted. They could see, through one uncovered window, which ex tended to the veranda floor, the ruby gates, the cut-glass candelabra, and the luxurious furniture. The girls were on the west side Of the house, which was a large square structure with exten sions at the rear.

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