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"Say, spiel that part again 'bout Penelope with the kisses on her mouth, an' you can kid me till the cows come home." The camper by the creek did as Billy asked him, while the latter sat with his eyes upon the fire seeing in the sputtering little flames the oval face of her who was Penelope to him.
But when, in response to an invitation from the genial camper whom Cyrus and Joe called "Doc," the whole party, guides included, had gathered around the camp-fire in the big log hut, and Dol told his story from start to finish, he became the hero of the evening. His only fault had been a rash venturing into the unknown; and well it was that he had not followed the unknown to his death.
'She is a jewel for an honest man, the General sighed, 'some day! 'Let us hope it will be a distant day. 'Yet, said the General, 'girls expect to marry. Lady Camper fixed her black eyes on him, but did not speak.
'Ah! Lady Camper sighed dejectedly. 'It is a perfect bijou! 'Oblige me, General, by not pronouncing the French word as if you were swearing by something in English, like a trooper. General Ople started, admitted that the word was French, and apologized for his pronunciation. Her variability was now visible over a corner of the battlefield like a thunder-cloud.
The profit to the Mormons from this migration was even greater in 1850. The gold-seeker sometimes paid as high as a dollar a pound for flour; and, conversely, as many of the wayfarers started out with heavy loads of mining machinery and miscellaneous goods, as is the habit of the tenderfoot camper even unto this day, they had to sell at the buyers' prices.
His little customary phrases, to which Lady Camper objected, he could see no harm in whatever. Conversing with her in the privacy of domestic life would never be the flowing business that it is for other men. It would demand perpetual vigilance, hop, skip, jump, flounderings, and apologies. This was not a pleasing prospect. On the other hand, she was the niece of an earl. She was wealthy.
General Ople studied Lady Camper diligently for fresh proofs of her penetration of the mysteries in his bosom; by which means, as it happened that she was diligently observing the two betrothed young ones, he began to watch them likewise, and took a pleasure in the sight. Their meetings, their partings, their rides out and home furnished him themes of converse.
I was never an eloquent man, and if you take me as a soldier, I am, as, I have ever been in the service, I was saying I am Wilson Ople, of the grade of General, to be relied on for executing orders; and, madam, you are Lady Camper, and you command me. I cannot be more precise. In fact, it is the feeling of the necessity for keeping close to the business that destroys what I would say.
Allen suggested a sleep, and before long the camp was quiet, each camper wrapped in his blanket and stretched full length on the ground. Very early the next morning the transportation of equipment was begun. The entire party went over to Fairview to bring the first load of tin dishes, plates, cups, knives, forks and spoons, kettles, pots, frying-pans, sugar cans and so the list went on.
She had ordered some books for Maria Lee's children and was looking them over before she sent them. The "Young Woods-man" was one and "Camper Craft" was another. How I shudder when I recall those names! Aggie had baked an angel cake and I had brought over a jar of cookies. But Tish only thanked us and asked Hannah to take them out. Even then we were not suspicious.
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