PETER

Miss Wald of the Nurses' Settlement told me the story of Peter, and I set

it down here as I remember it. She will forgive the slips. Peter has

nothing to forgive; rather, he would not have were he alive. He was all to

the good for the friendship he gave and took. Looking at it across the

years, it seems as if in it were the real Peter. The other, who walked

around, was a poor knave of a pretender.

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