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His father was looking over the rippling field, green-gold in the rosy dawn. He started uncomfortably at Tom's words. Twenty-five dollars! After sundown one night Pearl's resolve was carried into action. She picked a shoe-box full of poppies, wrapping the stems carefully in wet newspaper. She put the cover on, and wrapped the box neatly. Then she wrote the address.
Our captors explained who we were, and then we were pushed forward again, skirting a great wide lake called the Nasjarvi, along the wooded shore of which we walked the whole day long until, at sundown, we came to a picturesque little log-built town facing the water, called Filppula.
After a time he stopped and mopped his brow. "My legs are about to shrivel up and drop off," he said.... "Still if I keep on in this direction, I am safe to strike the Lumberland Pike before sundown." He dived at a clump of tag-alders, and emerging, confronted Jones's Mountain. The wanderer sat down in a clear space and fixed his eyes on the summit.
Then Chance fell to scratching his ear with his hind foot, rose and shook himself, and stalked indolently to the yard where he lay with his nose along his outstretched fore legs, watching the proscribed rooster with an eloquence of expression that illustrated the proverbial power of mind over matter. Sundown kept Pill loping steadily.
As the water was very shallow in some places, they had to follow the channel; and it was sundown when they had moored her to the point they had reached in the bateau. "That will do very well," said Dan, as they made her fast to a tree. "De nigger-hunters neber find us here, for sartin," added Cyd, as he dashed the sweat from his brow. "We are not in a safe place yet," continued Dan.
When in harvest time, after sundown when the shadows forbid farther cutting with the fagging hook at the tall wheat he sits on the form without, under the elm tree, and feels a whole pocketful of silver, flush of money like a gold-digger at a fortunate rush, he does not indulge in Allsopp or Guinness.
Kind o' thought I'd get a job. Fellas at Antelope told me they wanted a cook at this hotel. I reckon they do and some boarders and somethin' to cook." "That's one of their jokes. Pretty stiff joke, sending you in here afoot." "Oh, I ain't sore, mister. They stole me nanny, all right, but I feel jest as good here as anywhere." Corliss led Chinook to the water-hole. Sundown followed.
Every evening, after sundown, there were mysterious bursts of laughter and tiny scamperings around doors, and great balls of bloom swinging from the latchets when they were opened; but no person in sight, only soft gurgles of mirth and delight sounded around a corner of darkness. After Charlotte went to bed that night she thought she heard somebody at the south door.
They marched in the most cautious way. They reached the neighborhood of Mcintosh's home, and concealed themselves, to wait for night to fall. About sundown, or a little before, the Indians saw from their hiding place two persons riding along a trail. One was Mcintosh, and the other a man named Hawkins, who had married one of Mcintosh's daughters.
"Sundown!" exclaimed Fleda, jumping up; "is my uncle not here, Mr. Frost?" "He has been gone half an hour, Ma'am." "And I was to have gone home with him; I have forgotten myself." "If that is at all the fault of my roses," said Mr. Carleton, smiling, "I will do my best to repair it."
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