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Updated: June 28, 2025
At midnight they were off, rowing over the black water in the sail-boat, hoping for a fair wind at dawn, as the boat was heavy. They journeyed but slowly through the winding channel, leaving the sedge-gate open; no danger now from intruders; the great giant, Winter, had swallowed all lesser foes.
Old Fog returned in the sail-boat through the channels, and fastened the sedge-gate open for the out-going craft. Silver, timid and happy, stood on the balcony as he approached the castle. 'It is time to start, said the impatient bridegroom. 'How long you have been, Fog!
A few days later, out they sailed over the freed water, around the point, through the sedge-gate growing green again, across the channelled marsh, and out towards the Beavers, Fog and Waring, armed as if for a foray. 'Why, asked Waring. 'It's safer; the Mormons are a queer lot, was the reply. When they came in sight of the islands, the younger man scanned them curiously.
The fogs still steal across the lake, and wave their gray draperies up into the northern curve; but the sedge-gate is gone, and the castle is indeed Nowhere. Before the war for the Union, in the times of the old army, there had been peace throughout the country for thirteen years.
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