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THE COUNTRY BOY
know when they come.” I knew when I left the depot that it was suicide, but there was nothing else to do, so I went. A few days later I saw a man driving fast over the country road through the hills, and knew it wasn’t the doctor’s rig—it must be the band uniforms had
come; so I left the gap in the fence I was watching for a man and ran to town, and found that they had been there two days; father had been out of town surveying. When the people saw me they left their stores and houses and went with me to the depot. I asked them if
