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Pauline wheeled "Trike" out to the foot of the steps, Lynn rushed for the ever lost boy-hat, Muffie flew to pick a stone up from the path before the little wheel. Then a flash of irresistible humour shone in Kate Kinross's eyes. "Max," she said with exceeding suddenness, "what are you sorry for?" Max mounted his machine from behind and settled himself in his saddle.
To-day he had stuffed into his envelope a clipping from the tail of Larkin's horse, one of the white daisies Trike was being nourished upon, some shavings of coloured chalks from a box on which he had just expended his final penny, and a few currants from his last drop cake.
The breaking out included a tricycle for Muffie, who was ever in hot water with Max for stealing rides on "Trike" just when that gentleman needed the steed himself.
As the cliffs are of immense height, these indentations are profound, and drain off a little of the exhilaration of the too elastic pedestrian. The first fond trike him as delightfully picturesque, and he is down the long slope on one side and up the gigantic hump on the other before he has time to feel hot.
"Oh, of course, we'll go and ask permission first," said Hugh; "and we might leave Trike behind, eh, Max? After a feed like that he'll want a rest." Away they went out of the gate and across the road. Miss Bibby was down at the gate, fluttering with vexation.
What strange combination of circumstances could ever have brought such a man to this place, and sent him forth across those Indian-scouted plains? Surely nothing ordinary. And why should those border desperadoes have followed, through sixty miles of desolation, to trike him down? It was not robbery, at least in the ordinary sense. What then? And how was "Black Bart" involved?
So said he, and the herald heard him and disregarded not, and went his way through the host of mail-clad Achaians to spy out the hero Machaon. Him he found standing, and about him the stalwart ranks of the shield-bearing host that followed him from Trike, pasture land of horses. So he came near and spake his winged words: "Arise, thou son of Asklepios.
"I didn't think you'd mind." "Oh, Lynn!" said Miss Bibby. "But he looked so lonely," said the little girl piteously. Miss Bibby went round at once to the other door and demanded "Trike," though Kate strongly advised against it. "I've quite fin'shed with it," said the rebel sweetly, and dismounted without a struggle. Miss Bibby wheeled it out, somewhat ignominiously.
"He means a blood horse," explained Lynn in a low tone; "he always pretends his tricycle is a race-horse." Hugh lent the handkerchief even offered to assist in the tying. "I'd like to have given him a feed, poor old Trike," said Max, "only " and he looked regretfully around the garden "you've no grass, have you?" "I've no grass," said Hugh; "but did you never try him on white daisies?
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