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XII
A BUNDLE OF LIFE
Word reached Jos Gernos—Gernos is on the brink of the ascent into the sea of Morfa—that the inheritance of Leisa the only child of Nansi and Silas Penlon was to be nearly one hundred acres of land and all the gold that had been gathered by Silas. After deliberating on this for a day, Jos said to his mother that he was going forth to compromise Leisa; he strapped whipcord leggings over his legs, and saddled his pony, and rode out to Penlon; but Leisa did not respond to the small stones he threw at her window. Jos went back to Gernos, and in the morning he wrote a letter to Leisa, and he sent it by the hand of Samson Post, and
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