? ? ? ? "I wish now I'd thought," said Tom, with a repentant tone; "but I dreamed about you anyway. That's something, ain't it?"
? ? ? ? "It ain't much- a cat does that much- but it's better than nothing. What did you dream?"
? ? ? ? "Why Wednesday night I dreamt that you was sitting over there by the bed, and Sid was sitting by the wood-box, and Mary next to him."
? ? ? ? "Well, so we did. So we always do. I'm glad your dreams could take even that much trouble about us."
? ? ? ? "And I dreamt that Joe Harper's mother was here."
? ? ? ? "Why, she was here! Did you dream any more?"
? ? ? ? "O, lots. But it's so dim, now."
? ? ? ? "Well, try to recollect- can't you?"
? ? ? ? "Somehow it seems to me that the wind- the wind blowed the- the-"
? ? ? ? "Try harder, Tom! The wind did blow something. Come!"
? ? ? ? Tom pressed his fingers on his forehead an anxious minute, and then said:
? ? ? ? "I've got it now! I've got it now! It blowed the candle!"
? ? ? ? "Mercy on us! Go on, Tom- go on!"
? ? ? ? "And it seems to me that you said, 'Why I believe that that door-'"
? ? ? ? "Go on, Tom!"
? ? ? ? "Just let me study a moment- just a moment.
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