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Two large carriages were hired for the purpose, and Aleck was allowed to drive one, a man from the local livery stable driving the other. "How soon will you be back?" sang out Captain Starr after them. "Can't say exactly," replied Dick. The distance to the stock farm was three miles, but it was quickly covered, and once there the Rovers and their friends were made to feel perfectly at home.
Miss Starr always insisted that the arts should receive adequate recognition at Hull-House and urged that one must always remember "the hungry individual soul which without art will have passed unsolaced and unfed, followed by other souls who lack the impulse his should have given."
"By the way, captain," put in Tom, "have you noticed a stranger watching the Dora the last night or two?" At this question Captain Starr leaped to his feet, allowing his corncob pipe to fall to the ground. "What made you ask that question?" he demanded. "We have an enemy, named Dan Baxter. We suspect he is following us and is spying on us."
Bounding a sharp turn, Starr glimpsed the cabin and frowned as something unfamiliar in its appearance caught his attention. For just a minute he could not name the change, and then "Curtains at the windows!" he snorted. "Now, has the dub gone and got married, wonder?"
A fire had been burning in the furnace and fireplaces for several weeks, so the plaster was thoroughly dry, and it was Michael's plan that Starr and her father were to go straight down to the farm as soon as they were free to leave the house.
He had eyes of the dreamy sort, which generally looked away when speaking to anybody. "This is Captain Starr?" said Dick, addressing him. "I'm your man." "I am Dick Rover, and these are my brothers, Tom and Sam." Dick put out his hand, but the captain merely nodded. "Is everything ready for the trip, captain?" asked Tom. "Yes, sir." "You had the boat cleaned up?" said Sam. "Yes, sir."
"I'm sorry it happened this way, Mrs. Starr," he said. "It's awful! And one of our men!" "That's not your fault, Mrs. Starr." Starr fumbled along the clock shelf, found his pipe, and lighted it. He sat down near Waring as Mrs. Starr began to clear away the dishes. "If I can do anything to help run down that white-livered skunk " "You can, Jasper. Just keep it to yourself that I have been here.
Something was wrong and despite the hirelings of Starr Wiley she must know. "Dan," she began when he sprang down to assist her into the car, "I don't know how it is to be done, but we have got to lose those trailers. I don't care how long it takes or how many miles we cover doing it, but we must manage to get to Second Place, Brooklyn, without being followed.
Estan loved his big flocks and his acres upon acres of land, and his quiet home; had loved too his foster country, if he had spoken his true sentiments. So Starr took his cue and thanked his good fortune that he had come upon this tragedy while it was fresh, and while the shock of it was loosening the tongue of Luis. "A month from now is another time, Luis," he said quietly.
When the sublime ice-floods of the glacial period poured down the flank of the Range over what is now Yosemite Valley, they were compelled to break through a dam of domes extending across from Mount Starr King to North Dome; and as the period began to draw near a close the shallowing ice-currents were divided and the South Dome was, perhaps, the first to emerge, burnished and shining like a mirror above the surface of the icy sea; and though it has sustained the wear and tear of the elements tens of thousands of years, it yet remains a telling monument of the action of the great glaciers that brought it to light.
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