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Seeing how chilled they were, she had hurried the children to the loft above the one room of the cabin and was already giving them a rub-down and getting out dry clean clothes while they told her their adventure. "Thank God you are safe," she said, clasping them both in her arms, when the tale was told. "Thank Captain Sanders as well, Mother," said Daniel.
Here a sponge and a rub-down sent us in gay spirits down to the billiard-room, where a bottle of port was in waiting a rare bottle for particular occasions. It was "the last of a dozen," explained the Baron as we touched glasses, sent to the château by Napoleon in payment for a night's lodging during one of his campaigns.
Presently Wishful appeared with a galvanized iron washtub and a kettle of boiling water. Bartley thanked him. "You can leave 'em out in the hall when you're through," said Wishful. Bartley enjoyed a refreshing bath and rub-down. Later he set the kettle and tub out in the dim hallway. Then he sat down and wrote a letter to his friend in California, explaining his change of plan.
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