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Ken had proclaimed the day a half-holiday for himself, but Kirk was to go with him on the morning trip, and Phil, too, if she wanted to go. She did want, so Applegate Farm was locked up, and three radiant Sturgises walked the warm, white ribbon of Winterbottom Road to the Dutchman. Kirk was allowed to steer the boat, under constant orders from Ken, who compared the wake to an inebriated corkscrew.
Ken, on this first day, helped the old man load the trunks, rode with him to their various destinations, saw them received by unbelieving and jubilant owners, and then tore back to Applegate Farm, exultant and joyful. "One trip!" gasped Phil, touching the money reverently with a doughy finger. "And you're going to make two round trips every day! That's eighteen dollars a day!
What a charming reunion!" Applegate's eyes threw a startled question at his chief and at Creagan; Espalin slipped swiftly back through the door. "I don't know you, sir," said Applegate. "George! You're never going to disown me! Joe's gone, too. Nobody loves me!" The third man, a grizzled and bristly old warrior with a limp, broke in with a roar. "What in hell's going on here?" he stormed.
But it was not his dark, forceful face alone that lent him such distinction. Rather it was the perfect poise and balance of the man, the ease and unconscious grace of every swift and sure motion. He wore a working garb now blue overalls and a blue rowdy. But he wore them with an air that made him well dressed. Foy paused for a second; Applegate rose. "Well, Chris!" he laughed.
"Do you mean to say you can sing it so soon?" Ken gasped. "He ran away in the moonlight," Kirk murmured. "Away to sea. Would you, Ken?" "Not if I had a father like the Maestro, and a brother like you," said Ken, fitting the key to the door of Applegate Farm.
Applegate her husband had a degree. Her sister had just died and she was dressed in the deepest mourning; sitting in the shade in a corner, she produced a curious effect of a vacuum of grief. Mrs. Adams, who was quite young and very pretty, stout and blond, was talking eagerly; Mrs. Jonas White was sniffing quietly; Mrs.
Both of us were under a cloud. Now we're clear. We're goin' up to the house to have some supper. Applegate, you'll get both of the confessions of Miller fixed up, won't you? I'll want the one about George Doble's death to take with me to the Governor of Colorado. I'm takin' the train to-morrow." "I'll have the district attorney fix up the papers," the sheriff promised.
If they make a train they may escape us yet." "Je-rus-a-lem," exclaimed the chief of police, a man named Applegate, pulling out a huge old-fashioned silver watch, "there's a train due in a few minutes now; if we don't make it, they'll slip through our fingers!" Faster and faster the car roared forward and suddenly as it shot round a curve the little station of Sunnyside came in sight.
"There hasn't been a wreck?" demanded Ruth. "Yes. At Applegate Crossing. And it is the train from the west that is in trouble with a freight. A rear-end collision, I understand." "Suppose something has happened to the poor girl!" wailed Helen. "We must go and see," declared Ruth, quick to decide in an emergency. "You must drive us, Tom."
He took the trial trip secretly he did not intend to run the risk of sending Phil and Kirk to that portion of Davy Jones' locker reserved for Asquam Bay. But when he landed, he ran, charging through baybush and alder, till he tumbled into Felicia on the door-step of Applegate Farm. "I didn't want to tell you until I found out if she'd work," he gasped, having more enthusiasm than breath.
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