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Updated: May 26, 2025
"If she would view Fair Melrose aright," I quoted, "she must visit it in the pale moonlight, but you were very clever to delay her visit long enough for us to get over there and warn the enemy. If she had gone down there and caught the Polydores unawares, she would have come back here and revealed our secret, and there would be the end of Silvia's vacation."
"No, I am not," she denied. "I wish I were. Silvia's really the strong-minded type." "She didn't act the part when she saw the ghost," he retorted. "It's very unusual for her nerves to give way. Silvia's quite a surprise to me this summer, but I think those funny Polydores have upset her more than Lucien realizes."
He said it was only the slight fever that children are subject to. He thought with good care that he'd be all right in a few days." "Did you succeed in getting a cook to go to the Polydores?" I asked anxiously. "You'll need a nurse to go there, too, to take care of Diogenes." She looked at me reproachfully and rebukingly. "Why, Lucien!
I had been scanning Beth's letter and I laughed derisively as I read aloud: "'I am so curious to see those next-door children. When you first wrote of the "Polydores" I never once thought of them as children." "She thought exactly right," I told Silvia, and then continued reading: "'I supposed them to be something like tadpoles or polliwogs. I really think I shall enjoy them."
As we were making some plausible excuse for going to our room, Beth remarked with a smile: "Your motive in retiring so early is commendable, but of no particular benefit to Rob and me. The Polydores, like the poor, we always have with us." "I saw that every one of them except Ptolemy was in bed at eight o'clock last night and the night before," said Silvia. "You don't mean to tell me "
I think Silvia must have been conscious of it, even though the room was dark, for she came to me quickly. "I wish I could give you everything anything you want, Silvia." "You have, Lucien. The things that no money could buy love and protection." Well, maybe I had. I had surely given her protection from the Polydores, though she didn't know to what extent.
Silvia gazed upon their devouring of food with the same surprised, shocked, and yet interested manner in which one watches the feeding of animals. "I suppose he ought not to eat so many pickles," she remarked one day, as Emerald consumed his ninth Dill. "You can't kill a Polydore," I assured her. I never opened a door but more or less Polydores fell in.
She had scarcely taken off her hat and gloves when the four oldest came trooping and whooping into the house. "What's the matter?" gasped Silvia. "Got to be vaccinated," explained Ptolemy with an appreciative grin. Of all the Polydores he was the one who had least objected to scholastic pursuits, but he seemed quite jubilant at our discomfiture.
"And we'll borrow the little cart to draw him in." "Yes," acquiesced Rob. "We sure want Diogenes with us." "I'll have them put up a lunch for you," proposed Silvia. "No," Rob objected. "We are going to forage and cook over a fire in the woods." "Then," I proposed to Silvia with alacrity, "we'll have our first day alone together the first we have had since the Polydores came into our lives.
"We played baseball, fished, and had a spread on the shore. Then Ptolemy and I rowed out to where the sailboat was. I explained the mysteries of the jib and he caught on instantly. We took in the other Polydores and sailed for a couple of hours. Then we all went in swimming." "Not Diogenes!" "Certainly.
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