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That would be a good plan . We are always so happy except on pay days , and you are so wretched after you 've been to Klondyke . '' He agreed absolutely , with such alacrity that she was a little doubtful of him . Next morning when she went over to the Homestead at eight o'clock she learned that he had come to Mr. Twist with a tale about wanting the money for a visit to the store , and had gone off at six o'clock . It was three days before he came back , dirty and haggard and despairing almost to the verge of suicide . During those three days Marcella deliberately left her work ; she went to the Homestead in the mornings , and fired some gorse in the afternoons ; dense clouds of smoke rose into the windless air . For the rest she made Kraill talk , listening to him with an air of sitting at his feet .