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`` What do you mean ? '' demanded Westover , with his mind upon the mountain , which he electrically figured in an incredible destruction . `` She 's burnt . Burnt down the day before yist 'd ' y aft ` noon . A 'n' t hardly a stick of her left . Ketehed Lord knows how , from the kitchen chimney , and a high northwest wind blowin ' , that ca 'd the sparks to the barn , and set fire to that , too . Hasses gone ; could n't get round to 'em ; only three of us there , and mixed up so about the house till it was so late the critters would n't come out .