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We had planned a trip to the Knob the next day, and were to camp out for the night. He evidently saw my disappointment in my face, for he answered quickly, as he bent over me: "Oh, to-night, sure; and maybe Ruby'll go along. There ain't nothin' ye kin teach her 'bout campin', and she'll go anywheres I'll take her leastways, she allus has."
"That's what I call pluck! Law, indeed! It makes me so mad! You can fetch her to my house any minit. Your old room is ready for you, and I won't charge a cent till you find something to do and can pay. Maybe Ruby'll give up the school. Won't you, Ruby Ann?"
'John didn't like going home in the dark like, said the baker, with his little joke. 'So I just come along to drive away the bogies. 'The more the merrier; the more the merrier. Ruby'll have enough for the two o' you, I'll go bail. So John Crumb's afraid of bogies; is he? The more need he to have some 'un in his house to scart 'em away.
"Back to Plymouth to-night, an' then to the West Indies wi' a convoy." "Hurry, then; don't fumble, or Ruby'll be tired of waiting. You'll find a pencil and scrap of paper in my breast pocket. Hand them over." Zeb did so, and the stranger, seating himself again on the slope, tore the paper in half, and began to scribble a few lines on each piece.
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