Transcriber's Note
Minor typographic errors have been corrected without note.
This work contains a lot of dialect, which includes unusual spelling and hyphenation. This has been retained as printed throughout.
A small portion of the text was obscured on page 90. With the context and available space, 'Claude had' would seem to be the most appropriate for the original, and has been used here. It now reads, "... four hands clasped together, Claude had learned, for ..."
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