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Late that evening there came a knock at Llewellyn's door. He called out, "Come in! " and his sister Leslie entered. She shut the door softly behind her.
"Mother is asleep," she said; "and I think she has been crying -- she sighs so heavily in her sleep; it is not like her. I would not wake her for the world; but I knew you would be up, Lew, and I felt that I must have a talk with you."