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978: 127:, his friend Philip warns Bertha that Kenneth may not like the hurly-burly that she is trying to impose on him. However, they do get married. Philip comes back sometime later; Bertha has become very successful, whilst Kenneth has stopped writing. Philip is then to go to 135:, he reads a letter from Harrison saying Kenneth has disappeared. Back in America, he meets with Harrison and tells him he saw their friend in China. The two men vow not to say it to anybody and remain trustworthy to their friend, who evidently needed to get away. 869: 1048: 131:
for work; Kenneth is sad to hear from Harrison that Olympia is not the quiet town that it used to be, and muses that China must be quiet. Later, as Philip is on his way back to New York from
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Kenneth is leaving the fictional town of Olympia, Ohio and moving to
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Willa Cather
Short story
Century
Willa Cather
Century
New York City
Paris
China
Canton
University of Nebraska Press
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Willa Cather Archive
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Willa Cather
Alexander's Bridge
O Pioneers!
The Song of the Lark
My Ántonia
One of Ours
A Lost Lady
The Professor's House
My Mortal Enemy
Death Comes for the Archbishop
Shadows on the Rock
Lucy Gayheart
Sapphira and the Slave Girl
Hard Punishments

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