CHAPTER XXX.
SAMMY GRADUATES
THE next day when young Stewart came, the books were all back on the shelf in the main room of the cabin, and Sammy, dressed in a fresh gown of simple goods and fashion, with her hair arranged carefully, as she had worn it the last two months before Ollie's coming, sat at the window reading.
The man was surprised and a little embarrassed. "Why, what have you been doing to yourself?" he exclaimed.
"I have not been doing anything to myself. I have only done some things to my clothes and hair," returned the girl.
Then he saw the books. "Why, where did these come from?" He crossed the room to examine the volumes. "Do you—do you read all these?"
"The shepherd has been helping me," she explained.
"Oh, yes. I understood that you were studying with him." He looked at her curiously, as though they were meeting for the first time. Then, as she talked of her studies, his embarrassment deepened,
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