“It ’s Tim. I ’m coming up.”
There was a shriek, and the sound of a chair falling. I bounded up the stairs, and met her. At sight of me she stopped for an instant.
“Mercy!” she cried. “Is that my little Tim?”
Then her arms were around me, and she was laughing and crying on my shoulder.
THE END
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