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Updated: June 29, 2025
And Lucy, just her head and fingers showing from the great coon-skin coat, would give him a look that I should not now interpret as I did then. I thought that it made her feel sick at heart even to think of his going to some far-off place without her! "Speaking of far-off places," I said once, "Gerald Colebridge is taking some men to Burlingham to play polo.
This time he let the crowd have two encores and the show was over; for the astute manager, seeing how the girl had caught on, had moved her second number to the end. Burlingham lingered in the entrance to the auditorium to feast himself on the comments of the crowd as it passed out.
Each despised the other's vice and despised the other for being slave to it. Burlingham could trust Eshwell to watch Tempest, could trust Tempest to watch Eshwell. Susan helped Mabel with the small and early supper cold chicken and ham, fried potatoes and coffee. Afterward all dressed in the cabin.
But Susan, ardent reader though she was, could not often lose herself in books now. She was too impatient for realities, too anxious about them. Burlingham remained equable, neither hopeful nor gloomy; he made her feel that he was strong, and it gave her strength. Thus she was not depressed when on the last day of their week he said: "I think we'd better push on to Cincinnati tomorrow.
Burlingham did not let her off until she was ready to drop with exhaustion. And after supper, when they were floating slowly on, well out of the channel where they might be run down by some passing steamer with a flint-hearted captain or pilot, she had to go at it again. She went to bed early, and she slept without a motion or a break until the odor of the cooking breakfast awakened her.
Late in the afternoon, when the heat had abated somewhat and they were floating pleasantly along with the washing gently a-flutter from lines on the roof of the auditorium, Burlingham put Eshwell at the rudder and with Pat and the violin rehearsed her. "The main thing, the only thing to worry about," explained he, "is beginning right."
"Just this," said he. "We divide equally at the end of the trip all we've raked in, after the rent of the boat and expenses are taken off. You get your equal share exactly as if you started with us." "But that wouldn't be fair," protested the girl. "I must pay what I owe you first." "She means two dollars she borrowed of me at Carrollton," explained Burlingham. And they all laughed uproariously.
"Miss Sackville ought to share. We're all in the same box." "Miss Sackville will share," said Burlingham. "There's going to be no skunking about this, as long as I'm in charge." Eshwell and Pat sided with Violet. While the rain streamed, the five, with Susan a horrified onlooker, fought on and on about the division of the money. Their voices grew louder.
And he kept his word; for not once while the epidemic in the South of France lasted did he forget to forget to send the newspaper up to the Willows when there was anything in it calculated to alarm the most timid reader. "Cousin Maria," said Elisabeth, a few days after this, "I hear that Coulson's circus is coming to Burlingham, and I want to go and see it."
Not that there really was anything to be frightened about," Christopher hastened to add; "but you might have imagined things, and been upset; you have such a tremendous imagination, you know." "I'm afraid I have; and it sometimes imagines vain things at your expense, Chris dear." "How did you find me out?" Chris asked. "Alan told me about the cholera scare at Burlingham, and I guessed the rest."
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