Farmer，andhereinthephotographsentherbyCrawfordwasEdwinSmith。AndsavethatEdgarS。FarmerwasayoungmanandEdwinSmithamaninthemiddlesixties，theywerealmostidenticalinappearance。EachtimeshehadseenMr。Smith’sphotographshehadfeltcertainshemusthavemettheoriginal。Herewasthereason——
thismanintheotherphotograph。Theonlydifferencewasthedifferenceofage。EdwinSmithhadanoselikeEdgarFarmer’s，andachinlikehisandeyeslikehis。AndIsaiahhadjustsaidthatEdgarFarmerhadacrookedfingeronhisrighthandcausedbyanaccidentwithahogsheadofsalt。MaryrememberedwellsomethingCrawfordhadtoldher，thathisfatherhadafingerontherighthandwhichhadbeenhurtinamineyearsbeforehe，Crawford，wasborn。
Itcouldnotbe，ofcourse——itcouldnotbe——andyet——Oh，WHATdiditmean？
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Inhisownroomattheendofthesecond-storyhall，overthekitchen，Mr。Chasewassittingreadingthelocalpaperbeforeretiring。Itwasahabithehad，oneofwhichCaptainShadrachpretendedtoapprovehighly。“Bestthingintheworld，Isaiah，“