sitting down beside her lonely hearth when she entered
the house, she cried bitterly. "I did hope I could keep Ann with me
as long as I lived," she sobbed.

"Don't you take on," said Nabby, consolingly. "You take my word
for't, they'll be back 'afore long."

Nabby proved a true prophet. Red Robin did come trotting back from
the Vermont wilds, bearing his master and mistress before long.
Various considerations induced them to return; and Mrs. Polly was
overjoyed. They came to live with her.

Riding through the wilderness to Vermont on their wedding journey,
Ann had confessed to her husband how she had secreted the thief who
had tried to steal his Red Robin. She had been afraid to tell; but he
had turned on the saddle, and smiled down in her face. "I am content
that the man is safe," said John Penniman. "Prithee, why should I
wish him evil, whilst I am riding along with thee, on Red Robin, Ann?"

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