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In a distant village we bought three horses, two for riding and one for packing, engaged a guide, purchased dried bread, meat, salt and butter and, after resting twenty-four hours, began our trip up the Amyl toward the Sayan Mountains on the border of Urianhai. There we hoped not to meet Bolsheviki, either sly or silly.
But next morning when Karl, carrying in our petit déjeûner, turned on the electric light, and our anxious gaze sought our work, we found it good. Then followed a hurried packing of the loose presents; and, a fiacre having been summoned, the tree which had entered the room in all humility passed out transmogrified beyond knowledge.
"Your mother!" A swift recollection smote him. "Where is she?" "Mother died last week," Aleta turned away. "I'm rather thankful now." Silently he helped her with the packing. There were a suitcase and a satchel for the choice of her possessions. They required much picking and choosing. Many cherished articles must be abandoned. Suddenly Aleta ran to Frank. The room was rocking.
All day long a chill wind had blown across the city from off the lake, and by eight o'clock, when Laura and Jadwin came down to the dismantled library, a heavy rain was falling. Laura gave Jadwin her arm as they made their way across the room their footsteps echoing strangely from the uncarpeted boards. "There, dear," she said. "Give me the valise. Now sit down on the packing box there.
Suddenly he went straight up to Frederick Massingbird's chamber, who was deep in the business of packing, as his unfortunate brother John had been, not two short years before. "I wish to speak to you," he began. "I have thought of doing so these several days past, but have hesitated, for you may dream that it is no business of mine.
"Well, I'll be Oh, I say, Miss Forsyth, don't " But the boy's attention, quite naturally, turned to meet the enemy, who at that moment appeared over the crest of the hill. Beryl waved Robin off to the Granger's with a forced cheerfulness. Left alone, she sat in the room she shared with Robin and stared unhappily at the disarray left from the frenzied packing and unpacking.
Stein hastened back into the other room. The packing was done, and aunty had gone away with Oscar. The other children were complaining that they wanted her, and they didn't see why Oscar should keep her all to himself. Little Rikli had been watching all the preparations with the keenest interest, and, as it turned out, with an unfortunate effect.
When he left her her once clear, careless glance had a suggestion of furtiveness in it. That afternoon she packed her trunk and sent it to an address he had given her. In her packing she came across the stick of cold cream, still in the pocket of the middy blouse. She flung it, as hard as she could, across the room. She paid her bill with money Lethway had given her.
But they are as nought unless they are sealed by destiny, and that no mortal mind may know. Rosalie, whose eyes were red and wet with tears, spent most of the morning in packing up with Veronique, who cried too. I could not look at her, as I felt angry with myself for thinking how pretty she was.
It is only me, Charlotte! Her heart did not still its fluttering till she was safe in the drawing-room, with the windows fastened and bolted, and the familiar walls hemming her round, and shutting her in. She had sate down upon a packing case; cheerless, Chill was the dreary and dismantled room no fire nor other light, but Charlotte's long unsnuffed candle.
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