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Updated: June 26, 2025
"Come on!" cried Vi, taking the lead at once. She often did so, for Laddie was slower than she. "Come on! Let's get it, Laddie." Laddie, nothing loath, ran after his twin sister. They raced down the hill and came to the little gully into which the animal with the bushy tail had disappeared. The end of that gully was the open mouth of a culvert under the road. "Did he go in there?" Laddie demanded.
He went round the intervening swamp of watercress and brooklime which had once been the fish-pond, crossed by a culvert the trickling brook that still flowed that way, and advanced to the wall of the house. Boisterous noises were resounding from within, and he was tempted to go round the corner, where the low windows were, and look through a chink into the room whence the sounds proceeded.
Crossing a broken culvert not half a mile from the house, one of the horses fell in, and we all had to get out and walk, an annoyance which we felt to be the "last straw" on our much-enduring backs. McQuade's is merely a farmhouse on the main road.
"Don't you remember that very next night she sang in the choir well, John had brought her over from Minneola two days before, and that Sunday when the little devil went in the culvert across Main Street and blew up the Minneola wagons, Jane was in town that day I remember that; and man man I heard her voice say things to him in the duet that night that she would have been ashamed to put in words."
I was keeping well ahead of you, and was only a short distance from the village. I raced down the hill to the culvert over the hay slough. As I did so I saw two horsemen coming in the opposite direction. I believed them to be police. I swung out to the south, intending to take the slough at a jump, and get away toward the border. Too late I realized the slough's miry state.
There were the hatches, there was the culvert; they could see the pebbly bed of the stream through the pellucid water. The notes of the church-bells were audible, still jangled by the enthusiastic villagers. 'Why see it was there I hid his walking-stick! said Joshua, looking towards the sedge.
When he saw what was due to happen back yonder at the culvert, he told me '23, all right, but he took time to hike up ahead and yank that Jap cook out o' the car-kitchen before he turned his own little handspring into the ditch." The big engineer nodded, but he was still unconvinced when he made the stop for the siding at Last Chance.
Beyond the culvert the road which I followed had likewise been worked up into a grade. I did not like it, for it was new and rough. But less did I like the habitation at the end of its short, one-mile career. Anybody at all familiar with the district through which these drives were made will readily identify every natural landmark. The road was a trail again for a mile or two.
But the out-workings were very far off, and word could not be passed quickly, though the heads of the gangs and the Assistant shouted and swore and tramped and stumbled. The Manager kept one eye on the great troubled pool behind the embankment, and prayed that the culvert would give way and let the water through in time.
I tried to get back to the culvert, but my horse failed me. The troubled beast floundered, then he fell, and my head struck the culvert." Kate was breathing quickly. The horror of it all was getting hold of her. But she went on in broken jerky sentences. "When I opened my eyes, Charlie was bending over me. I told him what had happened. Then he passed me over to Bill, and I fainted again.
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