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The college comrades had now unravelled all the past, and their Sunday outing had after all been a jolly one. Thoroughly reassured, Clayton had given Jack Witherspoon his whole history, and the future campaign was laid out in all its details. "As for these Fidelity Company men," said Jack, "you can give them the go by in only frequenting secluded places.

Caution was born in them; they put their little feet down as if treading on eggs, and they sniffed every bush before going behind it. And the old mother noted their cunning with satisfaction while her own nose and ears watched far away. The outing was all too short; some uneasiness was in the air down stream.

I shall, therefore, keep the canvas until I can, with the consent of my own mind, put my signature upon it. Herewith, I am returning your check; for, of course, I cannot accept payment for an unfinished work. In a day or two, Mr. Lagrange and I will start to the mountains, for an outing. Trusting that you and your family will enjoy the season at Lake Silence I am, with kind regards,

Even as she cried, Choko was seen frantically scrambling on the verge of a cliff, and suddenly vanished over its side. "Oh, my little Choko!" sobbed Polly, quickly turning Noddy to go down to the edge of the precipice where the burro had slipped over and down. "Now we haven't a thing to eat, and no blankets for the night! I knew this was a foolish outing," complained Barbara.

Toby promised to make a rude but serviceable camp table upon which their meals might be served. And a host of other things were considered by means of which their stay in the woods might be made much more comfortable. They talked of numerous things besides those that concerned the present outing.

'I wish I could never see my great gloomy house again, since I am not rich enough to throw it open, and live there as I ought to do. Poverty of this sort is not unpleasant at any rate. What are you thinking of? 'I am thinking about my outing this morning. On reaching my grandmother's she was only a little surprised to see me.

After the corn-planting and the rush of work in May was over, he had given himself a week's outing among the trout streams of Ulster County, and had returned with his equanimity quite restored. To assure Amy of this, and that she had nothing more to fear, but everything to gain, was one of his motives in asking her to take the long sail that afternoon.

Dougherty had intended to make the outing with his unwonted wife an inconspicuous one. Uxoriousness was a weakness that the precepts of the Caribs did not countenance. If any of his friends of the track, the billiard cloth or the square circle had wives they had never complained of the fact in public.

I should perhaps tell them that the Grecian pantomime has nothing to do with Greek plays. They little know how much more keenly they would relish their normal opinions during the rest of the year for the little spiritual outing which I would prescribe for them, which, after all, is but another phase of the wise saying "Surtout point de zele." St.

Then in a thoroughly business-like way she went on to give the address of the school at which she had studied herself and had offered to take Nora there any evening the coming week. In the end, to Nora's great pleasure, she had suggested joining forces for an outing on the coming Sunday.