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Updated: June 17, 2025
For him, too, the return of the master was a joyous occasion; there would be a quarter for him if he had been a good boy, and some inner voice evidently was telling him that he had. There was a red-and-white-striped camellia in his buttonhole, and his narrow body was beautified by a dirty white waistcoat. The New York train whistled.
Suddenly she set her jaw and broke into the parley of her husband and their daughter: "Well, I've made up my mind. Adna, you shut up awhile and get on out this room. I'm going to have a few words with my girl." Adna looked into the face of his wife and saw there that red-and-white-striped expression which always puts a wise man to flight. He was glad to be permitted to retreat.
The signals were plain conspicuous fifty-foot pennants flying from the mast-heads, great cloth banners stretching along the hull on either side, a large house flag, wide deck cloths, and two huge red-and-white-striped signal balls eight feet in diameter at the top of the masts. Despite all these, a few too eager or too brutal submarine commanders let fly their torpedoes at these ships of mercy.
The waters in front of the inn were gay with fireflies or were they motor-boats, smelling of gasoline and oil? Once the hermit had known these things and had sported with Amaryllis in the shade of the red-and-white-striped awnings. But for ten years he had turned a heedless ear to these far-off echoes of a frivolous world. But to-night there was something wrong.
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