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Updated: May 31, 2025
"It's not luxurious, but doesn't leak very much unless it rains unusually hard." "Then why not come up here at night? I haven't another bunk or I'd have suggested it before, but a carload of ship-lap has arrived and I dare say Kerr will let me have a few boards." "Thanks; I'd like that," said Charnock, who hurried away. Soon afterwards Festing resumed his work.
He might have tethered his horses and walked the distance, but he had a talent for leaving to somebody else the things he ought to do. After supper she sat on the veranda, while Festing leaned against the rails. The house was built of ship-lap boards, with a roof of cedar shingles, and wooden pillars supporting the projecting eaves.
Burned matches and cigar-ends lay about the dirty boards; the windows of the mean ship-lap house were guarded by fine wire net. The door had been removed, and a frame, filled in with gauze and held by a spring, slammed noisily when one went in or out. For all that, the hotel was full of dust and flies, and mosquitoes hummed about the hot rooms at night.
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