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The best of this splendid day was yet to come in the ball. The McEacherns were the hosts, and never before had the old hand-made house on the edge of the plain been racked with such violent preparations. Such bakings and washings and scourings and paperings and sewings on the part of the women, and such killings and carpentering on the part of the men--the preparations were fit to rival the Labosseer-Mazere wedding.
The McEacherns and their assistants hurried home early from the races to put the final touches to the preparations. With them went Mr and Mrs Healey. Mr Healey quite recovered en route, a fact which he attributed to the approach of sundown.