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135 XVII. Mrs. Perkenpine Asserts Her Individuality   143 XVIII. The Hermits Associate   153 XIX. Margery’s Breakfast   161 XX. Martin Asserts His Individuality   173 XXI. The Individuality of Peter Sadler   185 XXII. A Tranquillizing Breeze and a Hot Wind   194 XXIII. Mrs. Perkenpine Finds out Things about Herself   205 XXIV. A Dissolving Audience   212 XXV. A Moonlight Interview   220 XXVI. An Elopement   229 XXVII. Mrs. Perkenpine Delights the Bishop   239 XXVIII. The Hermits Continue to Favor Association   248

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THE SUPPER	Frontispiece
“‘CAN THIS BE SADLER’S?’”	16
“‘THEY THROW THE OTHER THINGS BACK’”	54
“A LESSON IN FLY-FISHING”	80
“BUT THE BISHOP KNEW BETTER”	98
“WITH A GREAT HEAVE SENT HIM OUT INTO THE WATER”	102
“‘WHERE ARE ALL OUR FRIENDS?’”	150
“‘HAVEN’T TRIED IT’”	202
“‘IF THEY AIN’T THE CAMP ROBBERS!’”	232

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Mr. and Mrs. Hector Archibald were prosperous and happy dwellers in a suburb of one of our large towns. Fortune had favored them in many ways—in health and in a good average happiness. They had reached early middle age, and their daughter Kate, their only child, had