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They reached the barn in due course, and while Washington, Jack and Andy began a search of it, the two scientists went up to the house of the man who owned it and enlisted his aid. They asked him if he had seen Mark around that afternoon, but the farmer had not. "But me an' my hired man'll come out and help you hunt through the barn," he said.
The young inventor looked, and saw Andy and his father on the steps of the new institution. At the sight of the electric car, speeding along, Andy turned and spoke to his parent. What he said seemed to impress Mr. Foger, for he started, and looked more intently at Tom and Mr. Damon.
Highboy and Lowboy, however, had no armor. "Oh, my nice coat of varnish!" Highboy moaned as Jeremiah's claws reached him. "I shall no longer be a polished person," said Lowboy. Hortense and Andy kept in front of the two in so far as they could, but with Jeremiah in front and Grater at one side they were hard-pressed.
"It seems pleasant to see a home face. But how do you happen to be up here at this time? Did Mr. Rich send you?" "Then you have not heard " began Andy. "Heard what?" "That I have been discharged from your store." "When did this happen?" asked the jeweler, abruptly. "About two weeks ago." "Rich never wrote me about it. Who is in your place?" "John Crandall." "His nephew? The boy I discharged?"
On the streets of Gold City they debated over the estate, wondering if Andrew Malden had left anything for public charity, and whether the new lord of Pine Tree Mountain would rebuild the mill and open the Cove Mine. Pioneers of the hills met each other by the way and talked of how fast changes were coming in Grizzly county Yankee Sam gone, Father Reynolds gone, and now Andy Malden.
Straightway he sought out Andy like a man who has something on his mind; though Andy did not in the least know what it was, he recognized the indefinable symptoms and braced himself mentally, half suspecting that it was something about that blue roan again.
"Listen! ain't that boys shouting?" demanded Seth. "Just what it is now," replied Andy. "They've got scouts at the bend of the road, and know we're coming." "We've done what we set out to do, fellers!" cried Seth, gloatingly.
'Sure, of coorse, they can't be up to his thricks, an' he an ould sojer! And here Andy let fly vivaciously beneath his unconscious adversary's left ear, restraining the knuckles within about half an inch of his throat. 'Are you speaking to me, my good man? said the captain, suddenly wheeling round upon Andy, who sat face to his back.
Don't hold up till you've had it out," he kept repeating, while Richard wept, until the fountain was dry and the tears refused to flow. "I've been a brute, Andy," he said, when at last he could speak. "The fault was all my own. I did not understand her in the least. I ought never to have married her. She was not of my make at all."
The party had only that which Andy had smoked over the fire. But this was easily carried and their packs were not heavy when they prepared to leave the camp as soon after sunset as the frost would allow. The terrific change from the heat of midsummer to the cold of midwinter, and all within something near twenty-four hours, was hard indeed to bear.
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