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I longed to say, 'Well, what the devil are you digging for? but I only stared into the hole as though hypnotized. "'Captain McPeek and Frisby ought to be here, he said, looking first at Daisy and then across the meadows. "I ached to ask him why he had subpoenaed Captain McPeek and Frisby. "'They are coming, said Daisy, shading her eyes. 'Do you see the speck on the meadows?
He greeted me very cordially, but there was an abstracted air about him, and he called me Dick until I recognized that remonstrance was useless. He was not long over his coffee and rolls. "'McPeek and Frisby will return with the last load, including your trunk, by early afternoon, he said, rising and picking up his bundle of drawings.
"The professor ushered me into a room on the north side, where I found Captain McPeek and Frisby sitting at a table, upon which were drawings and sketches of articulated animals and fishes. "'You see, McPeek, said the professor, 'we only wanted one more man, and I think I've got him Haven't I? turning eagerly to me. "'Why, yes, I said, laughing; 'this is delightful. Am I invited to stay here?
"The silence was too painful to last. "'Captain McPeek is an interesting man, I said. I spoke more loudly than I intended. I may have been nervous. "'Yes, said Daisy Holroyd, 'but he has a most singular hotel clerk. "'You mean Mr. Frisby? "'I do. "'Yes, I admitted, 'Mr. Frisby is queer. He was once a bill-poster. "'I know it! exclaimed Daisy Holroyd, with some heat.
Jack's out in China, and I didn't dare trust anybody in my own profession. All you care about is writing verses and stories, isn't it? "'I like to shoot, I replied, mildly. "'Just the thing! he cried, beaming at us all in turn. 'Now I can see no reason why we should not progress rapidly. McPeek, you and Frisby must get those boxes up here before dark.
Papa has engaged him to come down here for two weeks, and I dread it, said the girl. "What Professor Holroyd might want of Frisby I had not the faintest notion. I suppose Miss Holroyd noticed the bewilderment in my face, for she laughed and nodded her head twice. "'Not only Mr. Frisby, but Captain McPeek also, she said.
"Frisby, fat, nervous, and sentimental, hopped out of the cart. "'Come, said the professor, impatiently moving across the dunes. I walked with Daisy Holroyd. McPeek and Frisby followed. The yellow dog walked by himself. "The sun was dipping into the sea as we trudged across the meadows towards a high, dome-shaped dune covered with cedars and thickets of sweet bay.
The local name for the place is Pine Inlet; the maps give its name as Sand Point, I believe, but anybody at West Oyster Bay can direct you to it. Captain McPeek, who keeps the West Oyster Bay House, drives duck-shooters there in winter. It lies five miles southeast from West Oyster Bay. "I had walked over that afternoon from Captain McPeek's.
"At that moment, over a near dune, two horses' heads appeared, followed by two human heads, then a wagon, then a yellow dog. "I turned triumphantly to the professor. "'You are the very man I want, he muttered 'the very man the very man. "I looked at Daisy Holroyd. She returned my glance with a defiant little smile. "'Waal, said Captain McPeek, driving up, 'here we be! Git out, Frisby.
McPeek and Frisby shall go for a dozen loads of boilers to-morrow. "'It will spoil the beauty of the landscape, said Daisy, with a taunting nod to me. "'And Frisby will probably attempt to cover them with bill-posters, I added, laughing. "'That, said Daisy, 'I shall prevent, even at the cost of his life. And she stood up, looking very determined.
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