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'How can you tell when they will arrive? asked Mrs. Winship. 'I can make a pretty good guess. They'll probably start from Tacitas as early as eight or nine o'clock, if Elsie is well. Let's see: it's about twenty-five miles, isn't it, Uncle Doc? Say twenty-three to the place where they turn off the main road.
'Polly, pray lower the umbrella; we are going to meet some respectable people, and we actually are too dirty to be seen. I have really been eating dust. 'They must be equally dusty, said Polly, sagely. 'Why, it is the Burtons, from Tacitas ranch! The Burton ranch wagon was drawn up, as its driver recognised Dr.
His name should have led him not to set an example, but to follow one. Elsie came. Perhaps you thought that this was going to be an exciting story, and that something would happen to keep her at the Tacitas ranch; but nothing did. Everything came to pass exactly as it was arranged, and Jack met his mother and sister at twelve o'clock some four miles from the camp, and escorted them to the gates.
'Yes, it is. Written this morning from Tacitas Rancho. Why, how is this? Let me see! TACITAS RANCHO, Monday morning. Dear Truth, You will be surprised to receive a letter from me, written from Tacitas. But here we are, Elsie and I; and, what is better, we are on our way to you. Elsie has been growing steadily better for three weeks.
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