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Updated: July 18, 2025
Besides, Mr. van Buren would probably not have been in the Tower, whereas intuition told me that he was coming to me that is to us as fast as "Mascotte's" motor could bring him. We stood up, and waved, and shouted. I hardly know what other absurd things we may not have done, in our delirium of joy.
We should have reached Key West at half-past two Sunday afternoon; but an accident which disabled one of the Mascotte's boilers greatly reduced her normal speed, so that when I went to my state-room at eleven o'clock Sunday evening we were still twenty or thirty miles from our destination.
So I bounded out of bed, wishing I could recall that dream-face, just to make sure whether or no it was more beautiful than either of the girls'. And by the time I had dressed, and gone across to "Mascotte's" deck, the two I loved were on deck also, with the first light of dawn shining in their eyes. What did it matter that we had engaged rooms at Zwolle, which we had not occupied?
With that he turned his back upon us resolutely and made off, scrambling on board the barge jammed nearest "Mascotte's" side. So he went on, from one to another, until he had disappeared from sight. "Miss Van Buren," said Brederode, "can you forgive us?" "It is hard," she said, picking up a fold of her white dress and playing with it nervously. "But we won't talk of it any more ever.
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