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She seemed then more like their own Billy the Billy that they had known. "And I'm so glad to be here," she cried; "and to see you all. America IS the best place, after all!" "And of America, Boston is the Hub, you know," Bertram reminded her. "It is," nodded Billy. "And it hasn't changed a mite, except to grow better. You'll see to-morrow." "As if I hadn't been counting the days!" she exulted.
"About an hour after we picked you and Lyad up," he said, "we had a Council Order transmitted to the ship. Told us to swing off course a bit and rendezvous with a fast courier boat of theirs." "What for?" "The order said the courier was to take Lyad on board and head for the Hub with her. Some diplomatic business." He scratched his chin.
That yesterday was gone, but old Simon was doing with to-day. On two benches was a cart wheel, with its hickory spokes radiating like fingers from the locust hub, and on the floor were the mallet and the steel chisel with its tough oak handle.
In one quarter a sense of pity had furthermore been generated a fact, though unsuspected at the time, that was to prove the hub round which Murphy's whole future was destined to revolve. An appeal to the heart, if such once gets home, can never really fail unless, as Murphy's countrymen might say, the person appealed to proves heartless.
Lysander put his foot on the hub and mounted to the high seat, gathering up the reins and putting on the brake. The mules started forward, and then held back in a protesting way, and the wagon went creaking and scraping through the sand down the mountain road. In the days that passed wearisomely enough before the trial, Melissa heard much that did not tend to soothe her harassed little soul.
Emerson was, and he always remained, the hub round which the wheel of Concord's fortunes slowly and contentedly revolved. He was at this time between forty-five and fifty years old, in the prime of his beneficent powers. He had fulfilled the promise of his unique youth obeyed the voice at eve, obeyed at prime.
Once on shore, Billy turned to the left, instead of the right which was the way home, and made for a tree that was just the right size to catch the hub of the wheel and overturn the cart in great shape.
The coordinates were centered on the Commissioner's course screen at the moment. "How about that Tranest squadron?" Trigger asked. "Think Lyad might have risked a lie, and they could get out here in time to interfere?" "No," said the Commissioner. "She had to have some idea of where to send them before starting them out of the Hub.
The snow gradually melted in the meadows and the fields, which first grew brown and then displayed patches of green here and there where the sun fell strongest. There was deep, sticky mud in the roads, and the discouraged farmers urged their horses along with the wheels of their wagons sunk to the hub in ooze.
When he reached the avenue the car was not in sight, nor was there any one on the street as far as Dupont Circle; and as thoroughfares radiate from the Circle as the spokes of a wheel from the hub, the taxi could have gone in practically any direction. So he gave over running running after a taxi-cab was not in his line and resumed his walk northward.
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