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"But I did," replied Phyllis. "I sent you our town address and told you everything." "Now isn't that rotten!" exclaimed Barry. "Never mind, I've found you, and now what's the programme?" "Well," cried Captain Neil with great enthusiasm, "we are all off to Edinburgh to-morrow, where we meet the Howlands, and then for a motor trip through the Highlands and to my ancestral home." Barry's face fell.
"Think how much better it is that you should have found him out now than when it was too late." And Janet shuddered. Ross dropped in at the house in the Lake Drive the next morning on his way East from the Howlands. As soon as he was alone with his mother, he asked, "How about Janet and Arthur?" Mrs. Whitney put on her exalted expression. "I'm glad you said nothing before Janet," said she.
Their understanding was perfect. Ever since the older woman had entered her brother's house, years before, to care for a motherless child, the bond of sympathy between the two had been of the strongest, and throughout she had remained the best friend and counsellor, if only because she was the wisest. When Dan entered the Howlands' drawing-room all the guests had arrived.
The Howlands and Dunn entreated the others not to go on, telling them that it was obvious madness; but the decision had been made, and the two boats pushed out into the stream. They glided rapidly along the foot of the wall, grazing one large rock, and then they pulled into the falls and plunged over them.
Couldn't stand it." "Well You mustn't stay more than five minutes." "Couldn't stand not seeing you. Every day, towards evening, felt I had to see you pictured you so clear. I've been good though, staying away, haven't I!" "And you must go on being good." "Why must I?" "We better not stay here on the porch. The Howlands across the street are such window-peepers, and Mrs. Bogart "
I'm done for just as much as though somebody had plugged me with a gat. Let Perris finish the job." He added hastily: "But these five years have changed me a lot. Maybe he won't know me." "You ain't changed that much, Jordan. Look at Howlands. He hadn't seen you for eight years. He knew you right off." "Ay," growled Jordan. "That's true enough.
Rivulets were hurrying in each alley; a calling robin appeared by magic on the crab-apple tree in the Howlands' yard. Everybody chuckled, "Looks like winter is going," and "This 'll bring the frost out of the roads have the autos out pretty soon now wonder what kind of bass-fishing we'll get this summer ought to be good crops this year."
But a treacherous eddy carried the boat manned by the two Howlands and Goodman into the current, and a moment later she disappeared over the unseen falls. The first fall was not great not more than ten or twelve feet but below the river sweeps down forty or fifty feet through a channel filled with spiked rocks which break it into whirlpools and frothy crests.
Therefore when Powell and his band floated down till the waters of the Green mingled with those of the Grand they were perhaps the first white men ever to arrive at the spot. The Colorado proper was now before them. It was the mystery of mysteries. A Canyon of Cataracts The Imperial Chasm Short Rations A Split in the Party Separation Fate of the Howlands and Dunn The Monster Vanquished.
He called on the Howlands, but he laughingly explained why he could not accept the invitations of Mrs. Howland to dinner. "I have to tell things here as I see them, and may not have your point of view. How can I accept your hospitality and then report that I think your husband ought to be sent up for life?" She was a good, motherly woman and she laughed with him.
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