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`` She lasted all that day and into the night . But I sat there after the new doctor had gone away . Nobody else dared to go there . It was about midnight that I left her for a minute to run home and get some medicine I had been takin ' , for I begun to feel rather bad . `` It was a full moon that night , and just as I started out of my door to cross the street back to Luella 's , I stopped short , for I saw something . '' Lydia Anderson at this juncture always said with a certain defiance that she did not expect to be believed , and then proceeded in a hushed voice : `` I saw what I saw , and I know I saw it , and I will swear on my death bed that I saw it . I saw Luella Miller and Erastus Miller , and Lily , and Aunt Abby , and Maria , and the Doctor , and Sarah , all goin ' out of her door , and all but Luella shone white in the moonlight , and they were all helpin ' her along till she seemed to fairly fly in the midst of them .