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For three weeks the weather had been chilly and disagreeable. "The winter will set in early," the oldest inhabitants were prophesying, when suddenly the full glory of the Indian summer burst upon the city.
Berty was delighted. "Dear Grandma will get better now," she kept saying, hopefully. "This is what she wants -- just a little warm sunshine before the winter comes."