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farmer’s wife at Peel, which was on the other
side of Tweed. But her mind was to go to
the Wishing Well. There she would wish for
Randal back again, to help his mother in the
evil times. And if she, too, passed away as he
had passed out of sight and hearing, then at

 

least she might meet him in that land where
he had been carried. How strange it seemed
to Jean to be doing everything over again that
she had done seven years before. Then she
had been a little girl, and it had been hard
work for her to climb up the side of the Peel

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