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She simply could n't get a clew ; for , when she went over for the soda , though she knocked several times , and heard voices up-stairs , and altogether unseemly laughter for a house where there had just been a funeral , not a soul came to the door ! Could it be that Julia Cloud heard her and stayed up-stairs on purpose ? She felt that as the nearest neighbor and a great friend , of Ellen 's it would be rather expected of her to find out what was going on . She resolutely refrained from lighting the parlor lamp , and took up her station at the dark window to watch ; but , although she sat there until after ten o'clock , she was utterly unable to find out anything except that the household across the way stayed up very late and there were lights in both front rooms again . She felt that if nothing developed by morning she would just have to get Ambrose to hitch , up and drive out to Ellen 's . Ellen ought to know . But Julia Cloud was serenely unconscious of this espionage .