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Updated: June 28, 2025
She had been subtly pleading Shandon's cause for the past week, but it was no use. The last outrage had apparently sealed her fate so far as Deaneville was concerned. Now, straightening her cramped back and looking off toward the valleys below them, Mrs. Larabee said suddenly: "That looks like Shandon down there now." Mrs. Dinwoodie's eyes followed the pointing finger.
A two cent stamp is a heap sight cheaper than an excursion ticket to New York. But Mortimer never did know the value of money," sighed Uncle Ezra. Grit growled again. "Nephew Richard, if your dog bites me I'll make you pay the doctor bills," warned Mr. Ezra Larabee. "Here, Grit! Quiet!" cried Dick, and the animal came inside, looking very much disgusted.
"What do you want of gasolene?" "To complete the trip," cried Dick. "Ours is all gone! A gallon would do." "Then, by hickory, you shall have it!" suddenly cried Mr. Larabee. "Where can you get it?" demanded Dick. "There isn't a drop aboard! "Oh, yes there is!" his uncle answered. "Here it is," and he brought from his room a square, gallon can.
You didn't dare bring your bulldog in here, did you, Nephew Richard? If you did I'll " "No, I left Grit at home, Uncle Ezra." Then the noise was repeated. It came from the part of the factory where the airship was being constructed, and was probably made by some of the workmen. "I guess I'll have to go now," said Mr. Larabee, and this was a hint for the boys to leave.
"And if you sue we can prove in court it was an accident. So you'll have your trouble for your pains." "I will, hey? Well, I'll show you, Ezra Larabee. I'll teach you to come around here bustin' my things up with your old airship! You ought to be ashamed of yourself, a man of your age, trying to fly like a hen or rooster." "I'm trying for the government prize," said Dick's uncle, weakly. "Huh!
They were shut up together in the parlor, and one window shutter was opened each time, to the horror of Mrs. Larabee. "That carpet will be faded all out, and clean ruined," she complained to her husband. "Well, if it is, maybe I'll get money enough to buy a new one," said Uncle Ezra. "Mind, I'm not saying for sure," he added, cautiously, "but maybe." "Why, how you talk!" cried Aunt Samantha.
"Particularly my Uncle Ezra." Had he but known it, Mr. Larabee, in his airship with Larson and the army man, was following close after him. For really the big biplane, with the mercury stabilizers, which Larson had constructed, was a fine craft, and capable. That Larson had cheated Mr. Larabee out of considerable money in the building had nothing to do with the working of the apparatus.
Uncle Ezra told of their experiences in crossing the continent. They had really had excellent luck, and in the hands of a better aviator, or one more dependable, the Larabee might have won the race. She was really a good biplane, but could only carry three, and then with no comfort at all, as compared to Dick's. But the mercury stabilizers worked fairly well, though not as good as the gyroscope.
Larabee, reaching out her arms for Danny, her face shocked and protesting and pitying all at once, "Why, Shandy, you should have waited for me over at the hotel," she said, in a lower tone, with a glance at the incongruous scene. Then pity for the anguished face gained mastery, and she added tenderly, "Well, you poor child, you, was this where you was walking this afternoon?
"Oh, you will, eh?" cried Hank. "Well, we'll see about that! I reckoned you'd try some such mean game as that Ezra Larabee, and I'm ready for you. Here, Si and Bill!" he called, and from behind a big tree stepped two stalwart hired men, armed with pitchforks. "This Ezra Larabee allows he'll not pay for damagin' my tree," explained Hank.
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