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Updated: June 17, 2025
"Would you like Martie to sit in Ma's place, Pa?" she asked one morning, when she was folding her napkin neatly into the orange-wood napkin-ring marked "Souvenir of Santa Cruz." Her father's surprised negative hardly interrupted the account he was giving his youngest daughter of the law-suit he had won years ago against old man Thomas.
Meeker brought two men aboard with him to carry his gear," explained Riggs. "They wanted to get out of Manila, and, as I was short-handed for chinks, I let 'em work their passage. They signed with the commissioner, and will get four Hong-Kong dollars for the trip." Trego frowned as he toyed with a bamboo napkin-ring, but said nothing.
The stage turned after a bit, and suddenly there was Gramper at the roadside, breathless after his run across a corner of the east forty. Instantly he was in the clutch of a great fear; the loss had been discovered. He sat frozen, waiting. But Gramper only flourished the napkin-ring, and humorously taunted him with not having packed everything, after all.
Presently Florence dropped her napkin-ring, making a little clatter as she did so. The girl seated opposite started, stopped, and picked it up for her. "Thank you," said Florence. There was something in her tone which caused the strange girl to drop her German book and look at her attentively. "Are you very tired?" she said. "Tired, yes, but it does not matter," answered Florence.
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