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To the south there extends a dreary plain as far as the salt marshes of the Manzano; eastward spread the wooded slopes of the plateau; above the Pecos border upon the basin. To the north the plain rises gradually, traversed only by the northern creston, until it merges into the plain of Santa Fé.
It was arranged that she should walk to a point of the Creston road where Harney was to pick her up and drive her across the hills to Hepburn in time for the nine-thirty train to Nettleton. Harney at first had been rather lukewarm about the trip.
"That they won't bate us more than foor miles," replied Gerald. "In my opinion," began Donald, "'tis no good accepting, for we have no boat, and if we did we have no time for practice, and " "Can't you think of a few more while you are at it," laughed Rand. "As for a boat we can get the use of the old shell of the Creston Club." "And we no have any crew to speak of," continued Donald.
Want to see it? I was going to put a head on it: 'Heroic Rescue by a Creston Boy." "You don't mean it, Jack Blake!" "Wait until you see it on the first page, double leaded, with a scarehead." "Really and truly?" "Really and truly." "Please don't, Jack." "Why, don't you want it?" asked Jack in mock surprise. "I thought you would be delighted to see your name in print."
She returned it to Winthrop, quietly, and hurried away about her work to avoid being thanked. I observed that, after this incident, masculine Creston became more respectful. Of several peculiarities in this development of the girl I made at the time careful memoranda, and the exactness of these can be relied upon.
Creston, making a step to look at something else, came nearer, glanced at him, started and exclaimed behaviour the effect of which was at first only to leave Stransom staring, staring back across the months at the different face, the wholly other face, the poor man had shown him last, the blurred ravaged mask bent over the open grave by which they had stood together.
It raised a great hue and cry. Four or five antediluvian ladies declared at once that we were nothing more nor less than a family of "them spirituous mediums," and seriously proposed to expel mother from the prayer-meeting. Masculine Creston did worse. It smiled a pitying smile, and pronounced the whole thing the fancy of "scared women-folks."
He had obtained the place for her at the cost of considerable maneuvering, as she guessed from the number of rival candidates, and from the acerbity with which two of them, Orma Fry and the eldest Targatt girl, treated her for nearly a year afterward. And he had engaged Verena Marsh to come up from Creston and do the cooking.
She knew that where he was there would be warmth, rest, silence; and for the moment they were all she wanted. She shut her eyes, and even these things grew dim to her.... In the train, during the short run from Creston to Nettleton, the warmth aroused her, and the consciousness of being under strange eyes gave her a momentary energy. She sat upright, facing Mr.
I'll pretend that I found the resignation waiting for me at Creston Hall." Half an hour later, Selina had written her letter and dispatched it to Warburton Hall, the faculty house where Miss Rutledge lived, by the small son of Mrs. Ingram, the matron of Creston Hall. When the dean had read and re-read the two communications, she looked decidedly grave.
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