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A rough man in one corner had a little captive, a tiny, dappled fawn, tied by a short, rough bit of rope to the foot of the car-seat.
It was a perfectly simple thing to sit in the car-seat where she had been placed by one uncle, until at the end of the trip she was met by the other uncle, and taken charge of, a perfectly simple, easy matter, and Ally had heretofore quite enjoyed it; but now, looking about her, and seeing the groups of other people's relations going home to Thanksgiving, she began to think it was a very lonesome thing to be travelling all alone by herself; and just as this occurred to her, what should happen but that one of these groups should turn inquisitively to her and ask, "Are you travelling all by yourself, little girl?" and when Ally had answered, "Yes," this inquisitive person commented upon her being such a little girl to travel all by herself; and then, when Ally told her rather proudly that she was ten years old, the inquisitive person had said, "Well, I don't know what my little ten-year-old girl would think to be sent off to travel all alone.
She was having a hot and dusty search under the car-seat for the sailor woman's purse, which had suddenly gone overboard from the upper deck of her wide lap, but it was found at last, and Betty produced the luncheon-box too and opened it. Her new friend looked on with deep interest. "I'm only goin's far as Newburyport," she explained eagerly, "so I'm not provided."
The bowed man in the car-seat remembered with a flush of reminiscent misery how the lad turned suddenly in his walk and entered the door of a drinking-room that stood open. It was very comfortable within. The screens kept out the chill of the autumn night, the sawdust-sprinkled floor was clean, the tables placed near together, the bar glittering, the attendants white-aproned and brisk.
Crawford's office?" "Ah, how did it?" The laughing face was sober now and she seemed appalled at the question. "Jack says some one must have found it in the car-seat where I left it, and he" she lowered her voice "he must be the " "The murderer," I supplied calmly. "It does look that way. You have witnesses, I suppose, who saw you in that train?" "Mercy, yes! Lots of them.
"You sure are some nervy." "'Cheer up! I always say to myself when a firm closes the front door on me: 'Cheer up; there's always the back door and the fire-escape left. That's how I made my rep in shirtwaists on nerve." He inclined to her slightly across the car-seat. "You wouldn't close the front door on me, would you, Miss Miriam?" "Look, we get off here!" "Would you?" "N-no, silly."
"You can't have a bite of what I buy, Laura Polk!" and she marched away to the lunch counter and spent most of her remaining pocket money on greasy pies, decrepit sandwiches, soggy "pound-cake" and crullers that might have been used with success as car-seat springs! The train was late in arriving at Freeling.
And he sadly acknowledged that he wasn't able to milk. Windmill men seldom were, he casually asserted. "Then you'll have to make yourself handy, in other ways," I proclaimed as he sat appraising me from his deep-padded car-seat. "All right," he said, as though the whole thing were settled, on the spot. But it wasn't so simple as it seemed. "How about this car?" I demanded.
He's ridiculously happy over them, and over the fuss I made about the basket." "H'm!" mused the Master, inspecting the present. "Jostled off the car-seat, as some fool of a driver took the curve at top speed! Well, that same driver has paid for his recklessness, by the loss of his lunch.
I can't fight as the under dog I never learned how; and they've fixed it so that I can't fight any other way." Kenneth had lighted his cigar and was lying back against the cushion of the car-seat. After a little, he said: "Just after we saw the Italian killed last week I told you I had a notion, Ford.
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