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It had not been, as she now recognized, merely a desire to justify Clarence Weston in the eyes of his English relatives, for she had felt reasonably sure that this was a thing beyond accomplishment while he remained a railroad-hand or a bush chopper.
"I dare you!" he exclaimed. "I'm ready," said Hal. "You mean it?" "Of course I mean it." "In that costume?" "Certainly. I'm one of his miners." "But it won't go," cried the reporter. "You'll stand no chance to get near him unless you're well dressed." "Are you sure of that? What I've got on might be the garb of a railroad-hand.
"Hush, mother!" said Hermione. "But what did he say?" she shrieked. "Tell me at once: do not keep it from me." "But we don't! Oh, Hermie, your father belongs to a good family in Maryland, but my grandfather made shoes. I was quite poor when he married me. I was only sixteen." "What you say?" said a railroad-hand who knew a little English. "You say you are not some aristos?"
"No, sir," said Edgar. "In my opinion, any attempt to extract reliable information from a Canadian railroad-hand is a waste of time. No doubt, it's so scarce that it hurts them to part with it." The Westerner looked at him with a little hard smile.
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