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"That was bully, Father!" said Colin, reaching out and shaking hands; "I'm glad I got here in time." His father looked at him with a twinkle in his eye. "How the deuce did you know I was out here?" he asked; "I thought the steamer was only just about due."
At last MM. Seguin brothers, civil engineers, and Pierre Colin, undertaker of public works, were, on the 16th october 1834, declared the approved contractors for the erection of the bridge; at the same time granting to them the receipts of the tolls for a period of 99 years, the bridge to be terminated at the latest, by the 1st of january 1837.
"What you must have suffered!" he murmured. "That is all over long ago; every year has left that further behind, and made me more content. Dear Colin, for me there is nothing to grieve." He could not control himself, rose up, made a long stride, and passed through the open window into the garden. "Oh, if I could only follow him," gasped Ermine, joining her hands and looking up.
Then he told of his whaling adventures and of the few days he had spent on the Pribilof Islands, recounting the Japanese raid with great gusto. The Deputy Commissioner, who had heard nothing but the official account of the fracas was intensely interested and he questioned Colin closely, noting carefully the boy's clear understanding of the seal question.
The fact that he had really once stood on his feet had set Colin thinking tremendously and when Mary told him of the spell she had worked he was excited and approved of it greatly. He talked of it constantly. "Of course there must be lots of Magic in the world," he said wisely one day, "but people don't know what it is like or how to make it.
"They're small and they're soft and they haven't any teeth at all," said the director, "but starfish cost the oyster industry at least five million dollars a year." "But how?" queried Colin; "I don't see how they can work it." "What is a starfish?" The boy thought for a moment.
It was fortunate for Colin that this was not decided until the day before they left Santa Catalina, for he became so impatient that the intervening hours before they started for the East seemed like weeks to the boy.
He just raved and said it'd be another hunchback like him and it'd better die." "Is Colin a hunchback?" Mary asked. "He didn't look like one." "He isn't yet," said Martha. "But he began all wrong. Mother said that there was enough trouble and raging in th' house to set any child wrong.
As the old center of the whaling industry, the harbor had a great interest for Colin, but there was but one of the whaling ships in at the time, and the ancient fisher-town atmosphere was greatly marred by extensive cotton mills that had been built along the river, just below where the whaling piers used to be.
Then he said mechanically, like one walking out of a dream? 'There's going to be a storm. Are you frightened? 'No, she answered. 'I'm never frightened of storms! and added, 'besides, Colin would be so glad of rain. Before he could reply, she had glided away again and he was alone. He thought it strange that she should be thinking of her husband and his material interests just then.
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