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to attempts to improve the minds and preserve the
lineages of Dingley Falls families. It's just as well she
died when she did and was replaced by that more
charitable reader, Sidney Blossom, while the house of
Dingley itself, whose fireplaces and forebears she had
so carefully catalogued, was still standing. For now
there was gossip about the last direct lineal descendant
of Elijah the founder, stories going around about
Beatrice Dingley Abernathy that—even if untrue—
Gladys Goff would have never allowed on her shelves.
chapter 13
Ernest Ransom was driving out of town to visit that
former property of his. He was a man of many holdings
—most of them handed him, as each ancestor finished
his life's run and passed the stick forward, handed him
in a lineal descent of bonds and a bank, of glass birds
and dishes, land, houses, and attitudes. One such
holding was fifty swampy acres just north of Dingley
Falls, property no one had ever thought usable, but
simply something in the family, bequeathed along with
keepsakes like Charity Bredforet's embroideries of