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That evening Polly returned to her own home, but the M'Cleans remained at the fort, and the next day Jeanie told Agnes that her mother was bent upon going nearer to the settlement of Marietta, that, now their cabin was burned and all their stock killed, they would be better off if they went farther on.
"Near Marietta? " exclaimed Agnes. "That is where we were to have gone. If my father were only here, we might go with you and search out the land belonging to my grandfather; then we could send for my mother. " She was silent a moment. "I think," she continued slowly, "I will do it, anyhow, as soon as -- as we know the worst about my father."