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Thus urged Jack stepped to the telephone, took down the receiver and called: "Let me have one two three Riverton, please. Office of the News, yes. They are not busy?" "Here's your party," said the operator on the other end of the wire. At the same moment Jack heard some one say, not at the 'phone but evidently in the room where the instrument was kept: "Well, I done it but I wanted the money."
I daresay you will guess that I am the new occupier of Riverton Park.
The professor prodded the harmless dust with his cane. Well, he supposed she would find a return to work pleasant and would doubtless be glad to see her Riverton friends again. "I'm dying to see Edith," said Katherine. "And Ned?" suggested Professor Keith. "Oh yes. Ned, of course," assented Katherine without enthusiasm. There didn't seem to be anything more to say.
Opening the bag he caught sight of a polished tin despatch or cash box, a bundle of letters, a package of bills and a thick envelope which probably contained postage stamps by its appearance. Reaching in and taking out the cash box, the first thing that attracted his attention were the letters on the cover. "Hello! Riverton National Bank!" he exclaimed.
From Riverton it soon spread to Burlington, some ten miles farther up the river, where it carried off large numbers of valuable cattle, and it continued in existence in that neighborhood for some time.
However, people must please themselves; and so it came to pass that the family at Riverton Park was soon left pretty much to itself, just exchanging civil calls now and then with the principal neighbours, and being left out of the circle of fashionable intimacy. Three families, however, kept up a closer acquaintance, which ripened, more or less, into friendship.
"All right. It will cost me another ten to put it in shape, but after that it will do all right. Will you deliver it to a man that I send after it? I'll take it down to the Riverton shops and work on it. They let me tinker things there whenever I want to." "Certainly. Send an order, and I'll let the man have it." "Very good. That's all for the present," and Jack went out.
I should be very sorry if anything happened to you and I do not like to restrict the enjoyment of the young gentlemen under my care. They enjoy walking through the woods but all of them know the danger and I need not restrict them as long as they know where to go." "Then these things had better be taken to the station and to the bank at Riverton?" asked Jack. "Yes.
Then late at night Dick's car was returned by a constable who said he had found it in the road just outside the town of Riverton and, recognizing it and knowing that there had been inquiries made about it, had brought it back. This did not explain Jack's absence, however, and many telephone messages were sent to various parts of the town, enquiring for him. Mr.
A light, puffing breath, as of a candle blown out, exhaled from his mother's lips. Her eyes closed, the hand in Peter's fell limp and slack. The awful and mysterious smile of death fixed itself upon her pale mouth. So passed Maria Champneys from her tiny house in Riverton, in the dawn of a winter morning, when the tide was turning and the world was full of the sound of water running seaward.
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