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Of course, every one knows you must have run away but no one cares." "Might say I was run away with can't always hold a horse," he laughed aloud in a leisurely way. "When he took me over the State-line, I didn't go back." "I see," said John laughing, as he rose and paid the barber. The cracked mirror satisfied him that he was well shorn. "You looks a heap older now you're shorn.
At 8 o'clock A.M. he might have been seen by a detective at the Twenty-seventh Street dépôt. A few minutes after he was going through the tunnel; and, emerging from that, he considered himself fairly divided from New York. At the first station beyond the State-line of Massachusetts he consulted a map, and concluded to stop at the junction of the Old Colony Railroad.
But she could not clearly remember his lean earnest face. Between her and Jeff were sweeping sunny leagues. But she was not lonely. Certainly she was not lonely for a young man with a raincoat, a cat, and an interest in Japan. No singer after a first concert has felt more triumphant than Claire when she crossed her first state-line; rumbled over the bridge across the Red River into North Dakota.
No customer of the state-line saloons could swear before a grand jury that he had violated the liquor laws of his state, and he was not subject to a summons at his home by the grand jury of the county or state in which he made his purchase.
"You don't want to git among Joe Johnson's men, boss?" said the red-eyed negro; "dey bosses all dis country heah, on boff sides o' de state-line. All dat ain't in wid dem is afraid o' dem." "How fur is it from this road to Delaware, Dave?" asked Phoebus. "We're right off de corner-stone o' Delawaw state dis very minute. It's hardly a mile from whar we air.
I reckon he would come if he thought he oughter but I'm on this side of the state-line. If I was on his side, mebbe I'd stop." Young Dave stared, for things were surely coming to a pretty pass in Lonesome Cove. "An' I reckon," the old man went on, "hit 'ud be better grace in you to stop sayin' things agin' him; fer if it hadn't been fer him, you'd be laid out by them Falins by this time."
His mother, believing him well, consented, after securing his promise in writing to return for treatment should there be a relapse into his old habits. As evidencing the decay of his character, these fair promises were made without the slightest intention that they would be kept. The first important city reached after crossing the state-line saw his demeanor change.
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