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Kate turned toward Agatha in surprise. "But I won't be there! I
told you I had taken a school."
"You taken a school!" shouted Adam. "Why, didn't they tell you
that Father has signed up for the home school for you?"
"Good Heavens!" said Kate. "What will be to pay now?"
"Did you contract for another school?" cried Adam.
"I surely did," said Kate slowly. "I signed an agreement to teach
the village school in Walden. It's a brick building with a
janitor to sweep and watch fires, only a few blocks to walk, and
it pays twenty dollars a month more than the home school where you
can wade snow three miles, build your own fires, and freeze all
day in a little frame building at that. I teach the school I have
taken."
"And throw our school out of a teacher? Father could be sued, and
probably will be," said Adam. "And throw the housework Nancy
Ellen expected you to do on her," said Agatha, at the same time.
"I see," said Kate. "Well, if he is sued, he will have to settle.
He wouldn't help me a penny to go to school, I am of age, the debt
is my own, and I don't owe it to him.


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