But at the sound of returning footsteps she sprang backward, clasping
her hands behind her. A copper-haired woman with a copper-haired child
in the curve of her arm moved through the lighted front room and toward
them. Her smile was upturned, with a dimple low in one cheek, like a
star in the cradle of a crescent moon. Charley Scully turned his vivid
face toward her.
"Till," he cried, "she come, anyway. Looka, she's come!"
"Yes, I--I've come," said Marjorie Clark. There was a layer of hysteria
in her voice.
THE END
End of Project Gutenberg's Every Soul Hath Its Song, by Fannie Hurst
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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