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But Uncle Jim had gone altogether....
He did not return for some days. That perhaps was not very wonderful.
But the days lengthened to weeks and the weeks to months and still
Uncle Jim did not recur. A year passed, and the anxiety of him became
less acute; a second healing year followed the first. One afternoon
about thirty months after the Night Surprise the plump woman spoke of
him.
"
I wonder what's become of Jim," she said.
I wonder sometimes," said Mr. Polly.
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