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Mrs. Herdicker , Prop. , dropped her voice to a confidential tone . `` Lizzie ? '' a pause ; `` They say you 've seen 'em together . '' The thought of the quarter page advertisement overcame whatever scruples Mrs. Thurston may have had , and so long as she had the center of the stage she said her lines : `` Why I do n't know a single thing -- only this : that for -- maybe a month or so every few days along about five or six o'clock when the roads are good I 've seen him coming one way on his wheel , and go down in the country on the Adams road , and about ten minutes later from another way she 'd come riding along on her wheel and go down the Adams road into the country following him . Then in an hour or so , they come back , sometimes one of them first -- sometimes the other , but I 've really never seen them together . She might be going to the Adamses ; she boarded there once years ago . '' `` Yes , -- and she hates 'em ! ''