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Mrs. Hodder, housekeeper at the manse, breathed a heavy sigh as she poured the minister's breakfast coffee. He looked up, as she had known he would; his ear seemed to be sensitive to sighs.
"It's queer, how things go for some people," she said. "I can't get over feeling that a body should have Christian burial, no matter what the circumstances is."