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`` Now do n't you be a-bothering your bright head with the Rileys or anyone else -- '' Dale interrupted his mother . On his face still lingered the dark flush that had crept up over it at the black-eyed girl 's taunt . `` I do n't know why Miss Forsyth _ should n't _ know the reason the Mill people did n't come tonight . There 's a big protest meeting about the Rileys -- it was n't gotten up until five o'clock or I 'd have told you . Tim Riley 's been laid up for six months and he 's just back on half-time and ca n't ever do any better , I guess -- and he 's been ordered out of his house which means -- up the river -- '' `` Up -- where Granny Castle lives ? '' broke in Robin , in a queer voice . `` Yes .