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PHINEAS, going along the beach that night, in the early moonlight, / towards his home, saw a little figure crouched in the shadow of a low / building beside the wharf. It was shaking with violent sobs. He went up / to the child, and took its hands down from its wet face, with a / comforting expression of pity. Then he started back in surprise. It was / Joel!
"Why, my child! My poor child!" he exclaimed, putting his arm around the / trembling, misshapen form. "What is the meaning of all this?"