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"Indeed we are," cried Nan. "I only wish the children on that snow-bound train had some of these good things." This turned the current of conversation and the Mortons were soon interested in the girls' story of the castaways in the snow. Mrs. Morton set to work at once and packed two big baskets with food. A whole ham that she had boiled that day was made into sandwiches.
Then they were to return at dark and guard the front of the house, so as to cut off all retreat from that direction. Two more of the force were to hide in the Mortons' stable, and prevent escape from the rear. Mr. Morton was to remain inside to avert suspicion and to give the alarm in case any violence was attempted.
It will make a good addition to what we learned to-day about the fossils." When the Mortons reached home they found Mr. Emerson waiting for them at their house. "I've a proposal to make to these children, with your permission, Marion," he said to his daughter. "Say on, sir," urged Roger. "Mr. Clark is getting very nervous about this man Hapgood.
The term of his probation with the tutor was abridged, and Arthur Beaufort was sent at once to Oxford. Before he went to the university, during a short preparatory visit to his father, Arthur spoke to him of the Mortons. "What has become of them, sir? and what have you done for them?" "Done for them!" said Mr. Beaufort, opening his eyes.
They all have a marked family resemblance to each other, they dress alike, in coarse monkish robes and sandals, they are all bald headed, they all stand in about the same attitude, and without exception they are gazing heavenward with countenances which the Ainsworths, the Mortons and the Williamses, et fils, inform me are full of "expression."
"We owe him a debt of gratitude, too, for the gallant way in which he rescued us from our disagreeable captivity. By-the-by, to what family of Mortons does he belong? It never before occurred to me to inquire." Edda heard the question; it showed her that her father had begun to think of Morton in another light than that of a common acquaintance.
Taylor began questioning Clotelle concerning her early childhood, and became more than ever satisfied that the slave-girl was in some way connected with the Mortons. Every hour brought fresh news of the ravages of the fever, and the Taylors commenced preparing to leave town. As Mr.
Everybody was busy until dusk sent the small children home and the caretaker came to uproot the pole and to shake his head ruefully over the condition of the lawn whose smoothness had been roughened by the tread of scores of dancing feet. It was while the Club members were sitting on the Mortons' veranda, resting, that Helen, who was president of the Club, called them to order.
"Did you expect she would come?" he asked, in ill-masked dismay. "I don't suppose they had any idea of it at first. When Sue wrote me that Lily had been studying too hard, and had to be taken out of school, I said that I wished she could come over and pay us a visit. But I don't believe they dreamed of letting her Sue says so till the Mortons' coming seemed too good a chance to be lost.
Only think, I have discovered I am sure of it one of the Mortons; and he, too, though the younger, yet, in all probability, the sole pretender the fellow could set up. You remember that the child Sidney had disappeared mysteriously, you remember also, how much that Mr. Spencer had interested himself in finding out the same Sidney.
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