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Cabot, who insisted on being beside him, and old Mr. Loughead in front the others of the party merrily following in a large old vehicle of no particular pattern whatever and before anybody could hardly realize it, the train came rushing in, and there were hurried good-bys, and hand-shakes, and they were off Phronsie crying as she held to her, "I wish you were going too, I do, dear Mrs. Higby."
Mother will know I am here and will be dragging the lake for me. This isn't like other good-bys. Of course, I may come back a Brigadier General and make you very proud of me, or I might not come at all, but I won't say that. Oh, Leigh, Leigh, may I tell you once more how dear you are to me? Will you promise again to send me the same message you sent to Prince Quippi when you want me to come back?"
He already began to wonder how he had ever felt any emotion towards the fair Cecilia she was perfectly charming, but left him as cold as ice! And so at last the good-bys were said, and he got into the motor with some of the other guests, ostensibly for the station, but in reality to get out at the Lodge gates upon the pretense of going to see the Professor.
But it was right, and Katy urged Helen's going, thinking how the tables were turned since the day when she had been the happy bride to whom good-bys were said, instead of the wounded, sore-hearted sister left behind, bearing up bravely so long as Helen was in sight, but shedding bitter tears when at last she was gone, tears which were only stayed by kind old Uncle Ephraim offering to take her to the little grave, where, from experience, he knew she always found rest and peace.
And with a chorus of good-bys the two started off toward the depot. The trip was begun. Bob had often been on railroad journeys, so there was nothing especially interesting about the first part of his trip. But his mind was so taken up with what was to follow that even the familiar scenes as the train sped on out of the village seemed full of delight to him.
The boys had arrived to carry baskets, and a rain-coated procession tramped gayly off, waving good-bys now and then to the two doctors standing in the window. "It hardly seems as though Catherine could be the same girl," said her father. "She is so eager and full of fun." "But she keeps her quaint sweet dignity all the same," answered Dr. Helen softly.
Army motor-trucks loaded with dismantled aeroplanes, and the less essential impedimenta screamed through the streets bound away from, not toward, the front. The Queen, that afternoon, was seen in the Hotel St. Antoine receiving the good-bys of various friends. Consuls suddenly locked their doors and fled.
So loud were the laughter and chatter, the good nights and good-bys, that big Tom McGinniss moved over from the opposite curb. "Halloo, John!" cried the policeman. "I thought I couldn't be mistaken. And Kitty, that you with your coffee-pot? I just come up from Lexington Avenue and heard the row, wondering what was up. Is it up-stairs ye were? WHAT! Dutchy givin' a ball? Oh, ye can't mean it!
We thanked him and made off amid the cheery good-bys of the assembled blue-coats. No lunch for us. We got to our horses, rode away, and that night I was at our rendezvous to tell the tale to those of my comrades who had arrived before me.
They were to leave Woodbine and Uplands on the last day of September, as the school term began October first, the intervening days being full of the excitement incident to their departure. The thirtieth of September came at once too rapidly and too slowly, and dawned crisp and clear; a good omen for the start. Good-bys were said to the servants, Mrs.
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