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‘Come on slow coach! Hurry up!’ I (Emily) called excitedly. Grace walked over the cart and kneeled down beside me. ‘Are you ready?’ I asked. ‘Yes,’ said Grace.
Carefully I untied the string around the package. Then, together we pulled the sacks (麻布袋) off. There wasn’t a dead body inside There was just a roll of cloth. And we both recognized the cloth. It was from Salts Mill.
‘They’re stealing cloth from the mill,’ I said shocked.
‘We have to tell someone.’ said Grace.
‘Yes,’ I said, ‘but not yet. We’ll come back tonight. We’ll see who they meet.’
‘I don’t want to come back tonight,’ said Grace.
‘Then I’ll come by myself, I said I wasn’t afraid of the dark.
When you worked in a mill, you were afraid of the machines and you were afraid of the overlooker (监工). They were far more terrifying than the darkness. I loved the silence of night-time. And in fact, I loved the darkness because with the darkness came the end of the working day.
So that night, I walked back to the