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Centerport was a thriving and rich city of some 150,000 inhabitants, while the other two towns although much smaller were likewise thriving business communities. There was considerable traffic on Lake Luna, between the cities named, and up and down the rivers.
Suddenly the mayor threw up his hand in command, and almost instantly as though he had himself switched off the light all the street lamps in the business section of Centerport went out The arc light over the spot where Laura stood blinked, glowed for a moment, and then subsided. Mrs. Sweet cried out in alarm. "This is all right," Laura called to her. "Now watch."
And it seemed probable that, as he had so much money with him when he landed in Centerport, that he must be somebody in Osage of wealth and prominence. I wrote secretly to the postmaster at Osage and learned that the president of the Drovers' Levee Bank had gone East on a vacation presumably to hunt up some relatives that he had not seen for some time." "Sly Mother Wit!" cried Jess.
Steele," Laura promised, "we will come with our car and take you for a ride all over Centerport, and along the Lakeside Drive. It is beautiful in the spring." "How nice of you!" cried the invalid. "But that, of course, depends upon whether we are in Centerport when the pleasant weather comes," said Mrs. Steele sadly. "Oh, my dear!" exclaimed Laura, "do you mean that you think of going away?"
In the middle of the last century, when Erskine was little more than an academy, it was often called "the little green school at Centerport." It is not so little now, but it's greener than ever. Wide-spreading elms grow everywhere; in serried ranks within the college grounds, in smaller detachments throughout the village, in picket lines along the river and out into the country.
It was a worthy production, and the girls deserved all the applause they received. It encouraged them to give two further performances, and altogether the three netted a large sum for the Red Cross. The play, in fact, was the means of raising more money for the fund than any other single method used for that object in Centerport.
Laura saw that he flushed and then paled again. He did not stop to say a word to the party of young folk from Centerport. Instead, he stepped into the thick underbrush and was almost instantly lost to their sight. Short and Long had hastened to get over the border of the farmer's posted preserve. But he had brought the trout with him and it weighed a good pound and a half!
At nine o'clock the drive back to Centerport began, and as the horses soon found that they were headed toward home the journey occupied surprisingly little time, and at ten Neil was back in his room awaiting the return of Paul. To Neil's surprise that gentleman was at first decidedly grumpy. "You might have let me into it," he grumbled.
"You said it," agreed Lance. "What then?" "There are not many cars in Centerport right now without chains on. The streets have been icy for more than twenty-four hours." "Your statement is irrefutable," said Chet, grinning. "Get it off your chest, Short and Long," begged Lance. "What do you mean?"
This was the residential end of Centerport, and the vicinity in summer was lovely. Now the outlook on Lake Luna's sparkling surface frozen in a sheen of ice to the shore of Cavern Island in the middle of the lake was wonderfully attractive.
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